Fool Quotes - Page 17

I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Why, this Satan’s drink is so delicious it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.

How easy love makes fools of us.

Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.

God cannot save them from fools.

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.