Fool Quotes - Page 33

• only a fool would argue with a fool!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Arguing

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• On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across

  Wendy Cope

  Goodbye, Song, Heart

  Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

  Tom Wolfe

  Lying, May, Weak

  Tom Wolfe (2002). “The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel”, p.283, Macmillan

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• Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but weariness as I watch the approach of one more episode in the old, tired story of men who try to beat life, the smart ones who think they know it all and die with a look of surprise on their faces: at the final moment they always see the truth - they never really understood anything, never held anything in their hands. An old story, old and boring.

  Álvaro Mutis

  Smart, Tired, Men

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• Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!" "Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..." "Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!" "I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny. "No! My mum would take herself!" "What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said. "The fire!

  Terry Pratchett

  Silly, Boys, Fire

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• Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.

  Christopher Moore

  Kings, Moving, Fall

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• She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Father, Might

  Julia Quinn (2010). “Ten Things I Love About You”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Healing, Way

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 23, 2015

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• The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.” “Yeah,” I said. “And now they’re gone.

  Rick Riordan

  Years, Civilization, Pyramids

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Men, Silent

  Neil Gaiman (2014). “Neil Gaiman Young Readers' Collection: Odd and the Frost Giants; Coraline; The Graveyard Book; Fortunately, the Milk”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Two, Knowing, Quality

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• The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Ass, Fahrenheit 451 Book

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• I’ll distract them,” Carter said. “You search. The Trophy room is through there.” “Carter!” But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Doe, Rooms

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Dream, Pain, Taken

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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• The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves.

  John Fowles

  Autumn, Smell, Lakes

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• What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Eye, Purpose, Ears

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.

  Marquis de Sade

  Believe, Two, Mad

  Marquis de Sade (2016). “Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man”, p.7, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Only a fool is not afraid.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Not Afraid

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.98, Macmillan

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• What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mortals

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• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Heart

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Character, People, Comedy

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2013). “Don Quixote of La Mancha (Full Text)/ Introductory analysis and literary poem by Atidem Aroha.”, p.437, Alejandro's Libros

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• And thus love makes fools of us all.

  Chris Cleave

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Mean, Home

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black

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• Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also those who think they are safe in this modern world of technology and weapons. Safe from all the ancient evils. They even believe that wizards, warriors, and dragons are long dead. They are fools clinging to their science and logic while thinking it will save them. (Thrylos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Warrior, Technology

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.1, Macmillan

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• To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I don’t deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I’m not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Forgiving, Chance, Divine

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