Fool Quotes

The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.

Anthony Liccione

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

William Shakespeare

Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.

I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.

Faith Erin Hicks

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.

He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it.""When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?

Cassandra Clare

He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes, He who never asks is a fool forever.

Anonymous

I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Books have more useful things to say than fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

The Holy Fool is always considered a dummy by the smart, hip people who really know the score. There’s a mysterious blight on the land, nothing will grow and no one knows how to break the spell. The Holy Fool sets out to find the cause, right the wrong, save the people. He’s told he can’t do it, that he’s too dumb, too weak, too something, hearing from all quarters, “That’s not how we do things here," and “You just don’t understand." But he goes ahead anyway.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.'("Queen Fantasque")

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I can be a stupid girl inside of a crazy woman at times over you. If I weren’t, you should be worried! We all do stupid shit. I might as well be a fool for someone worth it.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool

Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, "Don't you believe in second chances?"The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun. "Sonny Lee always said, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Cinda Williams Chima

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.

Whenever the birds sing, I will remember you Claire. As long as the sun shines, I will love you. And when the sun darkens everything and the dead sky falls, I will hope to see life again, I will hope to see you. There was never much hope but a fool's hope and a fool am I.

When people close to me lie to me or try manipulating me, I feel like I know how the sun feels when the clouds steal the sun's thunder.

Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully.I had never much believed in God. Well, that's not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or something close enough to it to warrant the name if there were demons, there had to be angels, right? If there was a Devil, somewhere, there had to be a God. But He & I had never really seen things in quite the same terms.All the same. I flashed a look up at the ceiling. I didn't say or think any words, but if God was listening, I hoped he got the message nonetheless. I didn't want of these children getting themselves killed.

A fool tries to shut others' mouth instead of listens to his own heart.

Toba Beta

You stupid, conceited fool! You know nothing! You're like a child, blind to everything but its own empty stomach! Well, grow up, Carl, and join the real world. Until you do, for God's sake leave me be!

Amanda Browning

People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

Alexandre Dumas

Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

Anthony Liccione

As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act "normal." I can do it well enough to fool the average person for a whole evening, maybe longer. But it all falls apart if I hear something that elicits a strong emotional reaction from me that is different from what people expect. In an instant, in their eyes, I turn into the sociopathic killer I was believed to be forty years ago.

John Elder Robison

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

A dog to vomit does turn,A fool to folly but return,The wise err and learn,Gaining from each burn.

we are all half fool, half wise , there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .

We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.

I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.

Hark Herald Sarmiento

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A traitor leader is the outcome of a fool nation.

Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

William Shakespeare

What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.

Christopher Moore

Those who are blindly led, blindly follow.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

Ask a sage, he will explain.Ask a fool, he will complain.

Toba Beta

What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?

Ogwo David Emenike

A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.

Idowu Koyenikan

Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.

By the time a fool learns how to hold a spear, the lion has eaten him.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited seriousness and all pretense of an extratemporal meaning and unconditional value of necessity. It frees human consciousness, thought, and imagination for new potentialities. For this reason, great changes, even in the field of science, are always preceded by a certain carnival consciousness that prepares the way.

Mikhail Bakhtin

If he ever wanted vengeance on me for all I did, he has it now. This is the worst thing he could do to me. Now I know how it feels to be left behind. As I left him.

His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. 'Beloved.'He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.

But what's left on earth that I haven't tried?" Prince Lír demanded. "I have swum four rivers, each in full flood and none less than a mile wide. I have climbed seven mountains never before climbed, slept three nights in the Marsh of the Hanged Men, and walked alive out of that forest where the flowers burn your eyes and the nightingales sing poison. I have ended my betrothal to the princess I had agreed to marry — and if you don't think that was a heroic deed, you don't know her mother. I have vanquished exactly fifteen black knights waiting by fifteen fords in their black pavilions, challenging all who come to cross. And I've long since lost count of the witches in the thorny woods, the giants, the demons disguised as damsels; the glass hills, fatal riddles, and terrible tasks; the magic apples, rings, lamps, potions, swords, cloaks, boots, neckties, and nightcaps. Not to mention the winged horses, the basilisks and sea serpents, and all the rest of the livestock." He raised his head, and the dark blue eyes were confused and sad."And all for nothing," he said. "I cannot touch her, whatever I do. For her sake, I have become a hero — I, sleepy Lír, my father's sport and shame — but I might as well have remained the dull fool I was. My great deeds mean nothing to her.

And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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