Fool Quotes - Page 29

• I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

  George R. R. Martin

  Beautiful, Sweet, Love You

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.356, Bantam

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• The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

  Epicurus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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• Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Worry

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.611, Penguin

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• Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

  Kate Mosse

  Love Is, Color, Purpose

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• All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Crowns, Truth Is

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1647, Bantam

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Clever, Bigs

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• 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?

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  World, Way, Pedantic

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• Don't take me for a fool!" Dee interrupted angrily, but then had to lean over the boat as another bout of nausea gripped him. Virginia grinned and winked at Josh. "It's hard to sound masterful when you're throwing up, isn't it?" "I hate you, Virginia Dare," Dee mumbled. "I know you don't really mean that," she said lightly. "I do," he croaked.

  Michael Scott

  Hate, Mean, Virginia

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• If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

  Nora Roberts

  Ifs

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts's The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy”, p.517, Penguin

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• It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

  Christopher Paolini

  Honesty, Lying, Scholar

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.637, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

  Bruce Sterling

  Wise, Play, Ideas

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• To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Giving, Information

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1705, Random House

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• She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she's in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.

  Lisa McMann

  Thinking, Doors, Two

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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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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• All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

  Bob Dylan

  Falling In Love, Morning, Pain

  Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?

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