I Was A Fool Quotes

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

The confident artist is a fool.

I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every day.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Now and then, there's a fool such as I.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

He can afford to be a fool.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them.

Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.

I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.

Wrath jammed a finger in V’s face. “Don’t follow me. We clear? You don’t follow me.” “You stupid fool,” V said with total exhaustion. “You’re the king. We all must follow you.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

People make fools out of themselves in all sorts of ways. No particular qualifications or particular criteria are necessary.

I would think you an utter fool if you did not doubt me, warrior. Instead, I am forced to respect your uncommon intelligence. Now what, do you suppose, should I do from there?

Faith is the fool's excuse.

choose now," he spat, his eyes practically shooing sparks. "me or him." gosh,Fang, you romantic fool," i said sarcastically."howw incredibly sexist pig of you.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.