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

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?

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.

Abraham Lincoln

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

Carly Craig

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

Gustavo Kuerten

I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play.

I feel they're spending money foolishly on a lot of different issues.

So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.

Johnny Damon

So many times, you see guys getting hurt whether they're just fooling around or not playing very hard. For me, I have to keep up with the routine, play like every game may be my last.

Lord Chesterfield

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

I'd be a fool to say we don't miss them.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

We still have some guys out, so we have to prepare for this team like they're Michigan State. We can't let that 0-8 record fool us.

Alonzo Mourning

We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.

Marquis de Lafayette

It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

Benjamin Franklin

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest

We have learned from our mistakes in the qualifying round. We are prepared to grind this one through. It would be foolish to underestimate the Leopards.

The problem with high-profile trials is that you have jurors wanting to be on because it's their moment to interface with fame. They fool themselves into thinking they can be fair.

William Shakespeare

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

Nolan Bushnell

I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Charles Spurgeon

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

Alan Paton

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Chris Cleave

And thus love makes fools of us all.

David D. Burns

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Casey Affleck

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.