Quotes about fool

Fool me once fool me twice but shame on me if you fool me thrice.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

You are so fool worshiping and dreaming her like an angel while another asshole is banging her right now.

True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

There is no way to counterfeit courage we either have it or we do not

Any darn fool can make something complex it takes a genius to make something simple.

Be bold and never feel shy to consult people. You may appear like a stupid person for few minutes if you ask questions but you are likely to be a fool forever if you don’t ask at all.

Choose a good attitude and that is the key to making great impacts! Never be fooled to follow the wrong direction you dreams will be alive and grow into success!

Intelligent men never do a business only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.

I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.

Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.

When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?

Only a fool believes that his actions don't shape the world.

Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?

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

The fool will pay anything to live a few more years on earth, but the fool rejects the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is a wise choice.

Any fool that had once helped you will someday make known to everyone that you were once a needy. No matter how broke you are, don't ever be quick to ask for help, let it be voluntary, and you must also learn to feign repudiation, no matter how valuable the offer.

You are not my sunshine. Sorry. You're more like a gust of arctic wind that bursts in and blows out all the candles when the door cracks open.

More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.

We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out.

I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

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

Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.

Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

To grow, be humble and ask questions most of the time. When you do so, a wise and smart person sees him/herself in you and treats you with dignity. On the other hand, if you ask questions and try to learn from a shallow and fool person, s/he treats you with contempt and disrespect. Now, you know who is who...

With the persistent loud voice, fool asks us to respect serenity.

Even if doors are open to the fool, he/she will still be foolish in accessing them.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

He shook his head pityingly. “This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter yo

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can't fool Allah.

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

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.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.