I Was A Fool Quotes

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel; I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

I can go into a lab and fool the rear ends off any group of scientists.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday

To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

We are all fools in love.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

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.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.