I Was A Fool Quotes

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

Except for fools and madmen, everyone knows that nuclear war would he an unprecedented human catastrophe.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

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.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.

The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE" "I had no choice" said Will " He was choking me" "I know" Jem said. " But really Will, AGAIN?

He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

Children and fools speak true.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.