We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.
~By John Blair ~
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
~By William Wycherley ~
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
~By Bill Terry ~
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
~By Doris Lessing ~
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
~By Josh Billings ~
It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.
~By Marv Albert ~
I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.
~By Ann Robinson ~
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
~By King Solomon ~
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
~By Helen Rowland ~
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
~By Bruce Lee ~
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
~By Sidney Hook ~
Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
~By Cleopatra ~
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
~By Ezra Taft Benson ~
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
~By Franz Schubert ~
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
~By Andre Maurois ~
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.
~By Sparky Anderson ~
I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
~By Maggie Smith ~
Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
~By Rod Stewart ~
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
~By W. C. Fields ~
Only a genius can play a fool.
~By Michael Rapaport ~
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.
~By Joe Miller ~
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
~By William John Wills ~
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
~By Bob Marley ~
An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.
~By Glenn Ford ~
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
~By Simone Weil ~
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
~By Jeanette MacDonald ~
You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
~By George W. Bush ~
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
~By William Alexander ~
I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.
~By Howard Finster ~
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
~By Al Pacino ~
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
~By Joseph Cannon ~
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
~By Stanley Weiser ~
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.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
~By Lord Byron ~
Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.
~By Henry Kravis ~
A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.
~By Edmondo De Amicis ~
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
~By George Galloway ~
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
~By Donella Meadows ~
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
~By John Woolman ~
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
~By Roald Dahl ~
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
~By Olivier Sarkozy ~
You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
~By Alice Walker ~
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
~By Golda Meir ~
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
~By May Sarton ~
I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
~By John Ciardi ~
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.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
~By Russell Hoban ~
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
~By Mark Twain ~
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
~By George Raft ~
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
~By Gerald Brenan ~
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
~By David D. Burns ~
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
~By Charles Lamb ~
I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
~By Lars von Trier ~
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.
~By Dalton Trumbo ~
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
~By J. B. Morton ~
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
~By Earl Wilson ~
A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.
~By Tommy Rettig ~
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
~By Ted Koppel ~
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
~By Cynthia Heimel ~
I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
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