Fool Quotes - Page 23

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.

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

The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

A fool and his money are soon married.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.

A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

What a fool honesty is.

Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better than I to a code. I wanted to conform but I couldn't so I wrote my poetry.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

Just Me, Just Me Sweet Marie, she loves just me (She also loves Maurice McGhee). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves Louise Dupree). No she don't, she loves just me (She also loves the willow tree). No she don't, she loves just me! (Poor, poor fool, why can't you see She can love others and still love thee.)

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.