Fool Quotes - page 45

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. (Joan Rivers)
So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd. View quote
Paul Bettany
Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple. View quote
Pete Seeger
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. View quote
Roald Dahl
One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool. View quote
Donna Tartt
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested. View quote
Paul McCartney
There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, But never of judgment. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The lawyers have sat in council, the men with the keen long faces, said, "This man is a fool," and others have said, "He blasphemeth;" And the wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life In the world of time and space amongst the bulks of actual things, To a dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold. View quote
Patrick Pearse
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. (Thomas Frank)
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down. View quote
Anna Deavere Smith
We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when, beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashings of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a damned fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with that same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke the thought aloud, 'Why don't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrades, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile. View quote
Ernest Thayer
I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids. View quote
Shaun White
You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line. View quote
Richelle Mead
it is true that you may fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all of the people all the time... dogs, on the other hand, with them all you need to do is flick your wrist and they run off looking for some stupid tennis ball. View quote
Darby Conley
By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
He could cheat on me and he would never tell me, and he would think less and less of me for not figuring it out. He would see me across the breakfast table, innocently slurping cereal, and know that I am a fool, and how can anyone respect a fool? View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. View quote
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises. View quote
Jack Vance
Poor Pymfyd! Your world is built of fear and dread! As for me, I have no time for such emotions.” Pymfyd spoke in an even voice. "You are a royal princess and I may not call you a witless little fool, even should the thought cross my mind.” Madouc turned him a sad blue-eyed glance. "So that, after all, is your concept of me. (Jack Vance)
One can bring no greater reproach against a man than to say that he does not set sufficient value upon pleasure, and there is no greater sign of a fool than the thinking that he can tell at once and easily what it is that pleases him. To know this is not easy, and how to extend our knowledge of it is the highest and the most neglected of all arts and branches of education. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
He [the Philosopher] should have made many mistakes and been saved often by the skin of his teeth, for the skin of one's teeth is the most teaching thing about one. He should have been, or at any rate believed himself, a great fool and a great criminal. He should have cut himself adrift from society, and yet not be without society. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference. View quote
Michael Chabon