Fool Quotes - Page 31

• I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Cost

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.1987, Delphi Classics

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• and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

  Charles Bukowski

  Laughter, Good Times, Easy

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

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• We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool. -The Christmas List- p. 296

  Richard Paul Evans

  Blessed, Love You, Air

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• Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.

  Steven Morrissey

  Rejection, One Thing

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• Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Rhyme

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• The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Self, Hindrance

  William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

  Alan Brennert

  Degrees, Masters, Boon

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i”, p.205, Macmillan

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• I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wise, Men, Action

  Daniel Defoe (2015). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" “But no living man am I!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, May, Eowyn

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.823, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

  L. Frank Baum

  Heart, Brain, Tin

  L. Frank Baum (2012). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Linus Van Pelt: Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and you made a fool of yourself and everything. But did you notice something, Charlie Brown?
  Charlie Brown: What's that?
  Linus Van Pelt: The world didn't come to an end.

  Charles M. Schulz

  World, How You Feel, Down And

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• Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Cheer, Rivers

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, can’t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates — or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stupid, Animal, Thinking

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

  Margaret Atwood

  Too Much, Greedy, Goodness

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

  Kathryn Stockett

  Life, Morning, Believe

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• I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of no where, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading. And then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates and no matter how often I reread the same lines they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading and I see myself as some mad old fool who thinks her stomach is full because she's been reading the menu.

  Muriel Barbery

  Spring, Book, Reading

  Muriel Barbery (2013). “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, p.39, Gallic Books

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• Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Men, Grace, Bigger

  Teresa Medeiros (2008). “The Bride and the Beast”, p.311, Bantam

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• Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Wise, Money

  Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 15

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• A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Heart, Mean, Sleep

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.104, A&C Black

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• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  William Goldman

  War, Land, Lines

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.116, A&C Black

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• Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said.

  William Goldman

  Mother, Daddy, Wife

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.253, A&C Black

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• Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?" "Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?" "Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me." "I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live." Nico drew his sword-three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. "I don't agree.

  Rick Riordan

  Party, Son, Army

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• A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Learning, Men, Progress

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Jesus, Long, Done

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.145, University of Illinois Press

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• A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

  Ariana Franklin

  Daughter, Baby, Children

  Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.43, Penguin

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