Fool Quotes - Page 49

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more years they expect you to have another good one.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

only a fool would argue with a fool!

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

Scratch a king and find a fool!

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.