I Was A Fool Quotes

There are enough fools in Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim terrorists.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

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

Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

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

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

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.

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so.

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.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

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

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

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.

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.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

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

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

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

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

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.

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

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.

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

The greater the fool the better the dancer.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.