Fool Quotes - Page 26

• The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

  Alex Trebek

  Senior, College, Years

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• A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Humor, Talking, Argument

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• I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

  Peter Ustinov

  Order, World, Pessimist

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

  T. S. Eliot

  Two, Doubt, Progress

  Prufrock (1917) "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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• The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Liars

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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• Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

  Andy Rooney

  Women, Smart, Pigs

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• I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Hurt, Thinking, Fear Of Failure

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.57, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Wise, Men, Coward

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.277, Penguin

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• Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wine, Trying, Bottles

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Giving, Responsible

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• Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

  William Butler Yeats

  Party, Character, Fighting

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• When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

  Robin Hobb

  Truth, Cutting, Pieces

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.209, Spectra

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• There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

  Edith Wharton

  Girl, Falling In Love, Aunt

  Edith Wharton (2001). “Collected Stories, 1891-1910”

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• I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

  David Gerrold

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Clever, Lying, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1896). “Recollections”, p.230, Library of Alexandria

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• He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Giving Up, Years, Games

  "The Age of Reason". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1945.

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• I've wanted you since the moment you tried to run me over. You are unlike any woman I have met before. You are strong, and courageous, and you do not suffer fools.

  Katie MacAlister

  Running, Strong, Over You

  Katie Macalister (2007). “The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires”, p.128, Penguin

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• On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Elsewhere, Happens

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.166, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Men, Race, Class

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.118, Book Tree

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• Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, May, Shows

  Samuel Coleridge, “Epigram”

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• When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

  Louis L'Amour

  Encouragement, Thinking, Typewriters

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.166, Bantam

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• Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.

  Zadie Smith

  Faces

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Falling In Love, Men, Might

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

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• What a fool honesty is.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [608]

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