Fool Quotes - Page 40

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.

It is not fools that I seek to address.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.