Fool Quotes - Page 38

• V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. "I'm thinking about my tattoos." "When did you get them?" "Almost three centuries ago." She whistled. "God, you live that long?" "Longer. Assuming I don't get cracked dead in a fight and you fool humans don't blow up the planet, I'll be breathing for another seven hundred years.

  J.R. Ward

  Tattoo, Lying, Fighting

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• Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Party, Journey, Nuisance

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Wise, Memorable, Unrequited Love

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1524, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.

  Joanna Russ

  Thinking, Suffering, Demon

  Joanna Russ (1980). “On Strike Against God”, Crossing Pr

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• Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Men, Miserable

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• Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Hands, Black

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.817, Bantam

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• It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

  George R. R. Martin

  Boys, Mad, Giants

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.899, Bantam

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• Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

  George R. R. Martin

  Jobs, Men, World

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.996, Bantam

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• Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sorcery, Spoons, Flavor

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1143, Bantam

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• But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Hero, Men, Feelings

  Alexander Pushkin (1998). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• A wise man can be a fool in love.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Wise, Men

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• Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

  Charlaine Harris

  Men, Sometimes, Manners

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.69, Penguin

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• Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate

  Robin Hobb

  Hate, Struggle, Fate

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• How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?

  Robin Hobb

  Years, Assassins, Moron

  "Assasin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Robin Hobb, April 1, 1995.

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• Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Wise, Mistake, Again And Again

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• DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Heart, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.921, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pride, Racism, Teeth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

  Philippa Gregory

  Curves, Fever, Her Smile

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• He was trying to be everywhere at once," the redhead told the human. "Trying to make sure Alice had nothing to do, actually." He shook his head as he looked at the tiny blackhaired girl. "Alice doesn‘t need anyone‘s help." The vampire named Alice shot a glare at Jasper. "Overprotective fool," she said in her clear soprano voice. Jasper met her stare with a half smile, seeming to forget for a second that I existed.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Voice, Vampire

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• Fool! You may hate me...But I...I haven't stopped thinking of you for a single day.

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Thinking Of You, Hate, May

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• Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Great Gatsby Love, My Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.141, Broadview Press

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• We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Mother, Children, Lying

  Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.118, Spectra

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• The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

  Roald Dahl

  Giving, Soul, Facts

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

  James Frey

  Believe, Heart, Eye

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• Faith is the fool's excuse.

  James Frey

  Excuse

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