For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.
~By Jim McKay ~
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
~By William Blake ~
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
~By William John Wills ~
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
~By John Ciardi ~
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~By Mark Twain ~
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
~By Cher ~
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 ~
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
~By Og Mandino ~
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
~By Josh Billings ~
I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
~By David Gerrold ~
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
~By Katherine Whitehorn ~
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
~By Elizabeth Gaskell ~
It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.
~By Marv Albert ~
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 ~
I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.
~By Cesar Romero ~
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
~By Perry Como ~
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
~By Al Bernstein ~
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
~By Michael Moore ~
I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
~By Richard Russo ~
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.
~By Ryan Stiles ~
Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them.
~By Alfred Sutro ~
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
~By Billy Joel ~
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
~By Stanley Weiser ~
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
~By Randall Terry ~
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
~By Alexander Pope ~
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
~By Saul Bellow ~
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
~By Moliere ~
I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
~By Maria Callas ~
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
~By Tiger Woods ~
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
~By Joseph E. Levine ~
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
Fools are without number.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
~By Franz Schubert ~
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
~By J. G. Holland ~
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
~By Dominic Monaghan ~
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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 ~
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
~By Barbara Smith ~
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
~By Dick Armey ~
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
~By John McCarthy ~
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
~By Horace ~
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Silence is the virtue of fools.
~By Francis Bacon ~
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
~By Ben Jonson ~
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
~By William Shakespeare ~
It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
~By Antonio Davis ~
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
~By Moliere ~
Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~
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 ~
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
~By Alec Guinness ~
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
~By Thomas Babington ~
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
~By Ilka Chase ~
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
~By Horace ~
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 ~
The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
~By Buddha ~
This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.
~By George Ripley ~
I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
~By Laurie Lee ~
Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
~By Francis I ~
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
~By Minna Antrim ~
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
~By George Eliot ~
I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
~By Danny Kaye ~
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
~By Carl Jung ~
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
~By Jim Rohn ~
A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
~By Carl T. Rowan ~
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 ~
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 ~
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
~By Frank Wedekind ~
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
~By Richard Steele ~
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
~By Ben Harper ~
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.
~By Thomas V. Smith ~
Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
~By Anderson Cooper ~
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
~By Sitting Bull ~
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 ~
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