Fool Quotes - Page 37

• Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.

  Jon Richardson

  Falling In Love, Fall, Too Much

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  It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Unhappy, Paradise, Worst

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Idiot (English French edition illustrated): L’Idiot (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.1139, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• 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

  Harlan Coben

  Thinking, Might, Heat

  Harlan Coben (2011). “Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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• You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how one woman can have so much black hair. You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. You will always run away with her. You will always lose her. You will always be a fool. You will always be dead, in a city of ice, snow falling into your ear. You have already done all of this and will do it again.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Falling In Love, Cutting

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• Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Crazy, Men, Mad

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.26

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• The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

  Alfred Bester

  Extravagance, Enjoy, Feels

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

  Lauren Oliver

  Life, Promise, Gold

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Eye, Pockets

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• What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

  Warren Buffett

  Wise, Investment, Ends

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.89, Carolina Academic Press

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• Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Water, Despair, Affection

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Dirty, Snakes

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

  William Shakespeare

  Taming, May, Spirit

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.274

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• Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes Rumbold-- You've m-met her? Velius--oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble

  Alethea Kontis

  Sunshine, Hair, Names

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• O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Book, Men

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• I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

  George R. R. Martin

  Flatterer

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.210, Bantam

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• We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

  Alethea Kontis

  Wise, Blessed, Angel

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no fool like an educated fool.

  Margaret Atwood

  Educated, Educated Fools

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.73, Anchor

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• Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

  Chris Rock

  Issues, Mind

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

  Daniel Handler

  Cuckoos

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.136, Egmont UK

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• Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Dragons, Laughing

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Falling In Love, Faults, Enough

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• But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

  Kate Morton

  Actors, Hindsight, Recourse

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• Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Love, Song, Regret

  Bernard Cornwell (1999). “Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur”, p.199, Macmillan

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• He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren't bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Strong, Believe, Men

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• You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

  David Allen

  Mind, Productivity

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.36, Penguin

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