I Was A Fool Quotes

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

I think you have to be careful about not hurting someone. The last thing I'd want to do is make a fool of someone, unless they saw the humor in it.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

And thus love makes fools of us all.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

Today, John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out the $500B deficit. John Kerry has a plan, he's going to put it on his wife's Gold Card.

Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing.

I felt like I was in charge.

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.

Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

Osama bin Laden has ten look-alikes to fool us Americans. Ten look-alikes, and he's married to five of them.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

You have to leave all your options open. And if you don't leave your options open, you're a fool.

Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

You can't fool the American people - politician trying to fool the American people.

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

I feel I do what I love, and the fools pay me for it.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.