Fool Quotes - Page 47

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

Any fool can hide, few can play.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

How short life is for fools.

When I make a fool out of myself or when I don't take myself seriously, I'm in a comfortable spot where I don't need to be reasonable. There's no reason to be reasonable. This is what I want to do and where I have full control. I determine what I want to do.

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.

Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.