Fool Quotes - Page 26

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

A liar lies to others. A fool lies to herself.

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools.

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.