Fool Quotes - Page 43

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

God looks out for fools and babies.

I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?

You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

When we are foolish God intervenes.

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so

I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

Pride is a fool's fortress

Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Looking foolish does the spirit good.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.