Fool Quotes - Page 45

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.

Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.

The warrior acts, the fool reacts.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."

I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.