I Was A Fool Quotes

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

When investing, I'm not against risk. If you take no risk you must expect a low return. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can get a high return with low risk.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.

Although some fools find rudeness sexy, it is never the path to seduction.

In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience.

The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

Any fool can steer a ship, sir. Its just knowing where to take it.

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

I am an alien, I have extraordinary powers, with more to come, and I can do things that no human would dream of, but I still look like a fool.

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.

What-ifs are for fools

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

He who controls the fools gold, controls the fools.

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

A fool with a tool still remains a fool.

Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool

If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.

Fools are wise until they speak.

Only a fool trips on what’s behind them.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

Science is a way for us to not fool ourselves.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

I’ll distract them,” Carter said. “You search. The Trophy room is through there.” “Carter!” But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.

I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.