I Was A Fool Quotes

A true leader always feels that it's truly wise to be considered a fool by those who are not actually nice, and actually not nice to be considered a wise by those who are truly fools.

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

As an actor, I know that any feelings you're showing are manufactured. But I still don't want to fool my mind into thinking my wife's into another guy.

Even if a fool dies, he won't be cured.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

Man and wife make one fool.

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.

'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?

Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.

When fools rush in, rush out.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.

Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.

I learned to dance at quinceañeras - big [15th] birthday parties for Spanish girls. It was always funny to bring the white guy out [on the floor] and let him look like a fool.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.