Fool Quotes - page 43

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer ... (Ambrose Bierce)
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful. View quote
Charles Barkley
An expert is a damn fool a long way from home. View quote
Carl Sandburg
When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame. View quote
Benicio Del Toro
My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out. View quote
Steven Tyler
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. (Maya Angelou)
If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind. View quote
Maya Angelou
How did a fool and his money get together in the first place? View quote
Steven Wright
A fool and his money are soon partying. View quote
Steven Wright
Pardon me, if I'm sentimental When we say goodbye, Don't be angry with me should I cry. When you're gone, yet I'll dream A little dream as years go by... Now and then there's a fool such as I. View quote
Bill Trader
Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you. You taught me how to love And now you say that we are through. I'm a fool, but I'll love you dear Until the day I die Now and then there's a fool such as I. View quote
Bill Trader
Poor verdant fool, and now green ice! thy joys, Large and as lasting as thy perch of grass, Bid us lay in ‘gainst winter rain, and poise Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. View quote
Richard Lovelace
That, my dear sir, or something not unlike, is what you could have said to me, had you the smallest leaven of letters or wit; but of wit, O most pitiable of objects made by God, you never had a rudiment, and of letters, you have just those that are needed to spell "fool!" View quote
Edmond Rostand
Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em. View quote
Mae West
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. View quote
Seneca
It is well to be born either a king or a fool. (Seneca)
All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world. View quote
L. Frank Baum
Like a fool as I was, I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
If a man who claims to see the future is a fool, how much more so, the man who believes he can control it? We think we steer the ship of fate, but all of us are guided by unseen stars. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
Don't be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes. View quote
Stephen Colbert