Quotes About Fool

To initiate something is to play the fool.

If wisdom's silence then it's time to play the fool.

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose too soon, A fool to snap my lily. My garden-plot I have not kept; Faded and all-forsaken, I weep as I have never wept: Oh it was summer when I slept, It's winter now I waken. Talk what you please of future spring And sun-warm'd sweet to-orrow: Stripp'd bare of hope and everything, No more to laugh, no more to sing, I sit alone with sorrow.

A Daughter of Eve... A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose too soon, A fool to snap my lily.

Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so. How could their father, said she, so fool them with his lies and nonsense?

was on the right side, was allowed to dislike this grown-up and consider him a fool. It's painful to recall my relief on reading this, founded as it was on a desperate misunderstanding about the size of the world.

I have loved a fool who counted kisses, she thought.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

The wisest fool in Christendom [James I of England].

Do you think i might be fool enough to run away from heaven if i get there?

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

One fool at least in every married couple.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Harald Sigurdson, I am a fool who has come to his senses. I obey you in all things. I love you in all things. I am your man. Let us now fight as brothers!' Harald did not hear these words. For he too was a berserk. . . .

You're fool enough at all times, and when you start explaining things in Italian you're a fool three times as foolish,

Pride is a fool's fortress

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

I'd been an idiot to think that this was anything but a quest. Searches were nice and soft and cuddly and no one need be killed. A quest always demanded the death of a trusted colleague and one or more difficult dilemmas. I'd been in denial. I'd been a fool.

There was something she wasn't telling me, but I had to trust her—only a fool ignores a local guide. "Okay