Fool Quotes - Page 29

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.

Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]

Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'