Fool Quotes - Page 22

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Running, Men, Risk

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• Silence is the best answer to a fool.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Wise, Silence, Answers

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

  Richard Russo

  Delighted

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• My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

  Marquis de Sade

  Thinking, Kinky, Care

  marquis de Sade, Richard Seaver (1999). “Letters from Prison”, p.327, Arcade Publishing

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• In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Men, Talking

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• I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

  Greta Scacchi

  Thinking, Make You Think, Feelings

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• The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wise, Wisdom, Opposites

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• The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

  Franz Schubert

  Wise, Men, Unhappiness

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• Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

  Junior Seau

  Leadership, Guy, Consistency

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• We are all fools in love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, History

  "Fictional character: Charlotte Lucas". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. September 5, 2005.

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• Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.

  Eddie Vedder

  Girl, Sorry, Thinking

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• The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

  Tamora Pierce

  Magic, Important, Lessons

  Tamora Pierce (2010). “Melting Stones”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Two, Long, Together

  R.D. Blackmore “Lorna Doone”

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• 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.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Lying, Poison

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.133, Penguin

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• When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.

  J. D. Salinger

  Worry, Want, Bathroom

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Wish, Desire

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.59, Penguin UK

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• What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

  Victor Hugo

  Honor, Gold, Dignity

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Olivia, Heat

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Twelfth Night”, p.32, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Character, Tricks

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• Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

  Nadeem Aslam

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Nadeem Aslam (2011). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.64, Faber & Faber

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• All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

  Robin Hobb

  Cutting, Men, Wind

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• In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.

  Richard Kadrey

  Fall, Men, Odds

  Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

  Philippa Gregory

  Husband, Thinking, Years

  Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen”, p.2782, Simon and Schuster

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• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Freedom, Fighting

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Bigger

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.60, Random House

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