Quotes About Fool

Away you three-inch fool!

O, I am fortune's fool!

Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool.

I am not a good pleader', he said; 'being too infernal conscious of my own dignity. The dignified fool, Demelza, gets nowhere beside the suave flattering rogue.

Uno sciocco dignitoso, Demelza, non ottiene niente, mentre il farabutto dai toni melliflui sì.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

Do you think I'm stupid? Only a fool would use a fast-acting poison on a target with a taster. The taster goes down before the king gets it into his system." Lila blinked at him, as if surprised by this display of logic.

He'd serve himself, waiting and watching until he could take advantage. He wouldn't play the fool anymore.

It is a fool who believes politicians will end the problems and poverty they have created in the first place. 

Being hurt is only superficial. Being fooled is more excruciating.

The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and woman.

Ieder idioot kan met een trein rijden. Het is altijd rechtdoor.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

The debauchery of leveraged speculation attracted endless small fry with big dreams, always the most irresponsible actors in the market. Minor millionaires fooled themselves into believing they had "made it big" and could multiply their loot indefinitely.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

The disturbing thing about Cardan is how well he plays the fool to disguise his own cleverness.

I hate being a fool. I hate the idea of my emotions getting the better of me, making me weak. But my fear of being a fool turned me into one.

Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.

Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.

I wonder if there's a limit to what I will let them do, if there is something that would make me fight back, even if it dooms me. If there is, that makes me a fool. But maybe if there isn't, that makes me a monster.

I was a fool", I say, because i might as well admit it. " I gave up the bird in my hand for two in the bush

Have you come to throw yourself on the mercy of the crown? Perhaps you hope the Queen of Elfhame will show leniency.' Madoc barks out a laugh, his gaze going to me. 'Daughter, every time I think you cannot rise any higher, you prove me wrong,' he says. 'And I a fool to wonder if you were even still alive.' 'I am alive,' I say. 'No thanks to you.

Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.