Fool Quotes - Page 36

• The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

  Stendhal

  Powerful, Grief, Men

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.154, Tyché

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• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Lying

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• There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mind, Troublesome

  "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels".

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• Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

  Stendhal

  Selfishness, Desert

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.331, Tyché

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• But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

  Charles Portis

  Done, Inclination, Drunkards

  Charles Portis (2010). “True Grit: A Novel”, p.84, The Overlook Press

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• Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Ostriches, Blind

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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• We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

  Stephen King

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• In this world, perfection is an illusion. Reagrdless of all those who utter the contrary, this is the reality. Obviously mediocre fools will forever lust for perfection and seek it out. However, what meaning is there in perfection? None. Not a bit. ...After perfection there exists nothing higher. Not even room for creation which means there is no room for wisdom or talent either. Understand? To scientists like ourselves, perfection is despair. - Kurotsuchi Mayuri (Bleach 306)

  Tite Kubo

  Mean, Reality, Perfection

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• You'll never have complete control, Caine. This world is changing all the time. Animals. People. Who knows what's next? We didn't' make this world, we're just the poor fools who are living in it.

  Michael Grant

  Animal, People, World

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• Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

  Nora Roberts

  Mean, Fate, Blood

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• What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

  Robin Hobb

  Differences, World, Made

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.297, Spectra

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• Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Song, Book, Heart

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “A Cloud In Trousers - Part II”

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• Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

  Sylvia Plath

  Long, Goal, Trying

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.47, Anchor

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• ...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

  Elias Canetti

  Home, Eye, Office

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• We are all fools in love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, History

  "Fictional character: Charlotte Lucas". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. September 5, 2005.

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• Silence is the best answer to a fool.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Wise, Silence, Answers

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• Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.

  Eddie Vedder

  Girl, Sorry, Thinking

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• The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

  Tamora Pierce

  Magic, Important, Lessons

  Tamora Pierce (2010). “Melting Stones”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Heart, People

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• I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Lonely, School, Teeth

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• May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Two, Long, Together

  R.D. Blackmore “Lorna Doone”

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• That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Lying, Poison

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.133, Penguin

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• I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Liars, Excellent, Knows

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• The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stupidity, Lasts, Firsts

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

  Christopher Moore

  Drinking, Men, Perfectly Good

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.193, Hachette UK

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