fools Quotes

“You’re brilliant,“he says.“But you’re a fool to stay with someone like me.” I close my eyes at the touch of his hand.“Then we are both fools.”

“Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. “You’re brilliant,” he says. “But you’re a fool to stay wish someone like me.” I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. “Then we’re both fools.”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“The fool lives to consume all they can take from the world. The wise live to create a better world.”

“Men are such constant fools! The rest may try to get over their passion with more or less success.”

″‘We’re always lucky,’ I said, and like a fool I did not knock on wood.”

“And you shall see in him The triple pillar of the world transformed Into a strumpet’s fool. ”

“I’m very much obliged to you, Irene, for getting me out of that hole, but I wish you hadn’t made a fool of me afterwards.”

“The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.”

“I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I.”

“You can be a fool for five minutes if you ask a question. However, you are a fool for a lifetime if you hesitate to ask a question.”

“What a precious triple donkey I had made of myself!”

“Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool-as if the way one fell down mattered. Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.”

“If you make a deal with a fool, don’t be surprised when they act foolishly.”

“Peradventure this is not Fortune’s work neither, but Nature’s, who perceiveth our natural wits too dull to reason of such goddesses, and hath sent this natural for our whetstone, for always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”

“It isn’t my stomach. It’s my essay. It’s a good essay. I know it’s a good essay. She said it was awful and I was too pleased with myself. She said it was a lie. I called her a fool.”

“We shall see what good they will make by exchanging a fool for a wise man.”

“I’m asking you to try working for a change. At your age I was working hard, not floundering around in a fool’s dream world.”

“If ever a dig in the ribs meant ‘Don’t be a fool, trust me,’ that one did.”

“To be sure, considering the exhibition you performed in his presence this afternoon, I might say it would be wise to refuse him: since he asked you after that, he must either be hopelessly stupid or a venturesome fool.”

I do hate him—I am wretched—I have been a fool!

“The fool!” said Father Wolf.

“Fool that I am! Oh, fat, brown, root-digging fool that I am,”

“I see, brother,” he said a moment later, “that I have been playing the fool again. I thought I should amuse you with my chatter, and I believe I have only made you cross.”

“But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can’t learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. ”

“But I am a fool, too!... No matter! Come along! Do you trust me? Come, do you trust me or not?”

“Some fools would be the better for a good drubbing, as well as having their hair pulled. I am not talking of my late husband now!”

Only like a fool I thought you did it out of kindness!

“I told you myself to-day that I was going, when you tried to keep me; now I will simply add that you are a fool. I advise you to see a doctor for your brains and your short sight. Let me pass, gentlemen!”

“I have been in several provinces. In some one-half of the people are fools, in others they are too cunning; in some they are weak and simple, in others they affect to be witty; in all, the principal occupation is love, the next is slander, and the third is talking nonsense.”

A fool thinks Shakespeare a great poet—yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.”

O, I am fortune’s fool!

“Of course, a fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”