Fool Quotes - Page 37

• I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Stupid, Years, Gentleman

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• I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Beautiful, Song, Winning

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• Remember when we met? Before you left, you said you were going to make a fool of yourself over me. That's still what you're worried about. That you'll find yourself doing things you never dreamed of doing, things you laughed at in others, and you'll make a fool of yourself.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Finding Yourself, Remember, Worried

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Personal Demon”, p.217, Seal Books

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• Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Color, Odds, Add

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• We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Monsters, Conquer, Young

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• Everyone has an angel, a guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day old man, next day little girl. But don't let appearances fool you, they can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they are not here to fight are battles, but to whisper from a hearth. Reminding that it's us... it's everyone of us who holds the power of the worlds we create.

  Zack Snyder

  Girl, Angel, Fighting

  "Sucker Punch". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Boxing, Devil, World

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.272, Macmillan

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• We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

  Ray Bradbury

  Morning, Thinking, Yesterday

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• ...Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Hurt, Perfect, Soul

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1991). “Hot Shot”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

  George Orwell

  Done

  "Shooting an Elephant" (1936)

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• To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Beast, Sensible

  William Shakespeare (1976). “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice”, p.38, Heinemann

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• On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

  Paul Newman

  Home, Hamburgers, Adultery

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• I would think you an utter fool if you did not doubt me, warrior. Instead, I am forced to respect your uncommon intelligence. Now what, do you suppose, should I do from there?

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Warrior, Thinking, Doubt

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• All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fear And Loathing, Energy, Flow

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.95, Vintage

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• Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  People, Said, Strongest

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “Garden Spells”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

  Tom Clancy

  Wise, Real, Mistake

  Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.201, Penguin

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• THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Hurt, Years, Keys

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan

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• A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

  Frank Herbert

  Wrath, Stones, Sand

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.225, Penguin

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• I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rebel, Thrones, Stories

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Book, Games

  Michael Chabon (2003). “Summerland”, Thorndike Pr

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• Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter." "And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted. "Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.

  Philippa Gregory

  Queens, Children, Princess

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• Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

  Octavia Butler

  Liars, Lying, Tyrants

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.226, Open Road Media

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• I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Hypocrite, Half

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• Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Sorry, Underestimate

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.374, Penguin

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• A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

  Jim Morrison

  Men, Other Worlds, Paradise

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