Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Benjamin Franklin

Learn of the skilful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the fools of their tools

Lin Wood

Only a fool would subject themselves to questioning by seven investigators as some sort of publicity stunt.

David Jason

Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses)

Charles Portis

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?

Bible Bible

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.

Ben Jonson

Success hath made me wanton.

Alan Greenspan

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

Chris Bauer

Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.

Cary Grant

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Chetan Bhagat

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Billy Wilder

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Charles Kuralt

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

Aidan Chambers

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Helen Rowland

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Bible Bible

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Bob Costas

You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you?

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Anger without power is folly.

Benjamin Franklin

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.