Fool Quotes - page 49

The fool learns by suffering. (Hesiod)
Only when he has suffered does the fool learn. View quote
Hesiod
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. View quote
J. B. Priestley
Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather. View quote
Tamora Pierce
There can be help. There's always God," said Amy. "I'm ashamed. I'd forgotten about Him.” She was quiet for a time. When she lifted her head she looked older and resolute. "Don't blame yourself too much, Cousin Caroline,” she said. "That's as bad as taking no blame at all. I'm not going to blame everything on Ames; I was a little fool myself. I was old enough to know that things aren't simple. View quote
Taylor Caldwell
Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep! View quote
Shantideva
With a shudder, Shakespeare said, "If your wind of wit sit in that quarter, why stand you here and not with the Spaniards?" "Why?" Kemp kissed him on the cheek. "Think you're the only mother's son born a fool in England?" View quote
Harry Turtledove
When last comes to last, I have little power: I am merely an urn. I hold the bone-sap of myself, and watch the marrow burn. When last comes to last, I have little strength: I am only a tool. I work its work; and in its hands I am the fool. When last comes to last, I have little life. I am simply a deed: an action done while courage holds: a seed. View quote
Stephen R. Donaldson
Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but... well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you. (Brandon Sanderson)
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. View quote
Confucius
The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When th. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
"Some fool has put the head of this nail on the wrong end." "You idiot, it's for the opposite wall!" To be sure, if the space of physical objects allowed motions of translation only, and not also rotations. That space has such geometry is a fantasy; experience shows otherwise. It is only experience that makes this complaint and the rejoinder a dialogue of madmen. View quote
Abraham Kaplan
A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Our instinct uses "more" and "less" in application to man, of the presence of the soul, and not of its absence; the brave man is greater than the coward; the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man, and not less, than the fool and knave. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
when a fool fails he says I was unlucky, when a wise man fails he says what a fool I had been. Song "If I was a Cat" live version. View quote
Avner Strauss
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck. View quote
Euripides
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. (Euripides)
When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
Anyone who dismisses out of hand evidence that U. S. intelligence agencies still do some of the things that they now brag about having done not too long ago is not a skeptic, but a fool. View quote
Barrett Brown
Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)