Fool Quotes - page 51

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Schoolmaster: But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool. View quote
Alan Bennett
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. View quote
Homer
Once a thing has been done, the fool sees it. View quote
Homer
Fair, gentle friend, I've found so dear a home I wish that dawn might never come again; The loveliest lady ever born of woman Lies in my arms, and I care not a straw For jealous fool or dawn! View quote
Giraut de Bornelh
Any woman who tries to influence a man in subtle ways is a fool. Every woman should influence her man, but she should do it as a full and open partner-and not in some secret fashion. View quote
Martha Beall Mitchell
Some players are wild on the field and off the field. They are made to look like heroes. I get nothing but sarcasm. And people take me for a fool. View quote
Roberto Clemente
A fool, a fool I met a fool i' th' forest,A motley fool. View quote
William Shakespeare
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool. View quote
William Shakespeare
The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach. View quote
William Shakespeare
Clown: Good Madonna, why mournest thou? Olivia: Good Fool, for my brother's death. Clown:I think his soul is in hell, Madonna. Olivia:I know his soul is in heaven, Fool. Clown: The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven. (William Shakespeare)
And my poor fool is hanged No, no, no life Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all Thoult come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never Pray you, undo this button. View quote
William Shakespeare
The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. View quote
William Shakespeare
Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I; I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not. View quote
William Shakespeare
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. View quote
William Shakespeare
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. View quote
William Shakespeare
Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd; and having now provided A gentleman of princely parentage, Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd, Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts, Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man- And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender, To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love; I am too young, I pray you pardon me'! View quote
William Shakespeare
JAQUES A fool, a fool I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool a miserable world As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms and yet a motley fool. 'Good. View quote
William Shakespeare
Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise. View quote
William Shakespeare
I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. View quote
William Shakespeare
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. (William Shakespeare)
'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. View quote
William Shakespeare
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die. View quote
Pierre Beaumarchais
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years! View quote
Pat Paulsen
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. View quote
Coventry Patmore