Fool Quotes - Page 35

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

Fools are not mad folks.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!

All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist..........if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves.

The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.