Quotes About Fool

I am playing a superhero for kids, and I don't want them to think I'm some dirty fool.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

Perhaps the most pernicious strain of contemporary criticism says one thing before it says anything else, says it to whatever historical event or cultural happenstance is supposedly at issue: 'You can't fool me.'

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.

All the way home, his wound pulsing with every hearbeat, he had cursed himself for a fool. How could he think she loved him? He had never been loved in his life, save perhaps by Erik and the other men who had served with him across the sea, and that was the love of comrades. He had never known the love of women, just their embrace. Twice he had found tears running down his face...

why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?' 'Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.

I am a fool who with his longing for love and tenderness runs up cold mountains.

The purely economic man is indeed close to being a social moron. Economic theory has been much preoccupied with this rational fool.

A weapon—any weapon—is a tool, she told us. Cradled in her arms was a Sunjet particle gun. Designed for a specific purpose, just as any tool is, and only useful in that purpose. You would think a man a fool to carry a force hammer with him everywhere simply because he is an engineer

No, I was an odder old fool, grafting pathetic hopes of affection onto the least likely recipient in the world.

I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor, Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you. And what be that treasure? Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up, she added. And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.

Mistress Blackthorn? Fool. Who else would it be?

Why are you smiling? she asked. I kissed the inside of her wrists and answered what I felt at that moment was the absolute truth. Because everything is perfect. This is what I know that I am: A fool.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.