Quotes About Fool

Love came easy, but it just wasn't for me. It flew away like swallows on a summer evening. Love sang softly, but it just wasn't to me. Was I a fool to give my love, to give my soul, and more away? My heart aches with longing, cries each night, As I just fall apart. —Carmen, singing Love Has Flown Away

I'm sprighted with a fool — Sprighted and anger'd worse.

An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

My mother had said to me afterward, "Your father is a fool." When I asked her why, she'd shrugged. "Men generally are," she'd retorted, and changed the subject.

but he did not change his purpose, nor did the universe invite him to change. It accepted the choice; no more preventing him than it prevents a child playing with fire or a fool destroying his love. It has not our kindness or our decency; if it is good, its goodness is of another kind than ours.

It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself

What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon

He who is born a fool is never cured.

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.

A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place.

An applicant for a job who disagrees with his prospective employer is either a fool or he has convictions, and there was nothing to suggest to me that your husband was a fool.

Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn't warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided you with their mercilessness.

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

He who strives for happiness is a fool. The wise man makes happiness for another.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.