Quotes About Fool

So do extremes meet; and such is sometimes the all-embracing capacity of the approval of a fool!

The facts are nothing,' she rejoined. 'I have only my own impressions to confess—and you will very likely think me a fanciful fool when you hear what they are. No matter. I will do my best to content you—I will begin with the facts that you want. Take my word for it, they won't do much to help you.

But she made one serious mistake which very clever people in their intercourse with their intellectual inferiors are almost universally apt to commit—she trusted implicitly to the folly of a fool. She

Christianity must be divine since it has lasted 1,700 years despite the fact that it is so full of villainy and nonsense. [Voltaire] shows how almost all ancient peoples had similar myths, and hastily concludes that the myths are thereby proved to have been the inventions of priests: the first divine was the first rogue who met the first fool.

Christianity must be divine," he says, in one of his most unmeasured sallies, "since it has lasted 1,700 years despite the fact that it is so full of villainy and nonsense."79 He shows how almost all ancient peoples had similar myths, and hastily concludes that the myths are thereby proved to have been the inventions of priests: "the first divine was the first rogue who met the first fool.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from Energy. ... The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ... Dip him in the river who loves water. ... A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ... The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure. ... Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.

The selfish, smiling fool, and the sullen, frowning fool shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.

Any fool can "obey" an order,' Hamo said, darkly. 'The clever thing is to interpret it.

Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is already one. ~

Fool! cried the hunchback. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

You're a peasant and a fool and I want my sword. You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance.

I, Inigo Montoya, do challenge you, coward, pig, killer, ass, fool, to battle.

recognized that the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool [Dummkopf] I was!"15

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me.

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool

He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me.