Fool Quotes - Page 35

• From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Way, Said

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Book, Ninety Nine

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

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• Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody.

  Linda Lael Miller

  Pain, Heart, Thinking

  Linda Lael Miller (2017). “McKettrick Men Complete Collection: McKettrick's Luck\McKettrick's Pride\McKettrick's Heart”, p.403, HQN Books

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• Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are all possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.

  Graham Greene

  Hair, Years, Waiting

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

  William Shakespeare

  Doors, Play, House

  1600-1 Hamlet, of Polonius. Hamlet, act 3, sc.1, l.134-5.

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• I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Magic, Insult

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• And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers to be known by her surname only," finished Lupin. "So would you if your fool of a mother had called you 'Nymphadora,' " muttered Tonks.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Witch, Surnames

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• Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

  Kami Garcia

  Ifs

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2009). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

  Mark Twain

  Girl, School, Licking

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.122, Prestwick House Inc

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• What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Self, Has Beens, Interfere

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.168, Dial Press

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• Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE" "I had no choice" said Will " He was choking me" "I know" Jem said. " But really Will, AGAIN?

  Cassandra Clare

  Choices, Vampire, Choke

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Clockwork Angel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Intelligent, Men, Blood

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• Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Cheating, Practice, Honest

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• But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

  Steve Berry

  Hero

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.1016, Ballantine Books

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• Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Wisest Man

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• Pride is a fool's fortress

  Leon Uris

  Pride, Fortresses

  Leon Uris (1980). “Topaz”

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• There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Comforting, Dying

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.' The elf grabbed one of the Jim Beam bottles from the table and slammed it down, so that he was holding a jagged glass neck. The elf smiled a very thin smile. 'Then I won't bother with magic.

  Holly Black

  Men, Glasses, Magic

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• I feel like I'm dropping such a long way down again." "I seem to be dropping into a cold dark wet place, where no one's been before and noone can every follow. There's no future there; just a past that sometimes fools you into thinking it's the future. It's the most alone place you can ever be and, when you go there, you not only cease to exist in real life, you also cease to exist in their consciousness and in their memories.

  John Marsden

  Memories, Real, Dark

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• When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, "Poor truant, passionate fool! Life’s book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school?" A poem by Charles Hanson Towne

  Mitch Albom

  Song, Pain, Book

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Beer, Sunday

  Carl Sandburg, (2013). “Chicago Poems”, p.27, Read Books Ltd

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• He had a note excusing him from PE for the rest of his life because he had some kind of muscular disease in his legs. He walked funny, like every step hurt him, but don't let that fool you. You should've seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Hurt, Legs

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

  Edna Ferber

  Trying, Love Conquers All, Said

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wise, Vain, Asks

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• For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

  Stendhal

  Character, Men, Tears

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.50, Tyché

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