Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

Ben Jonson

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)

Who is the Palestinian fool who will sit in negotiations and will have to pay so that we evacuate territory, when he knows if he simply waits, Israel will evacuate the territory?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

August Wilson

I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.

Well, as I characterize most of them, they're all gimmicks, gimmicks to fool the taxpaying public that they're going to get some kind of tax relief.

Sean Williams

We had to win or we would have headed home looking like fools.

Joshua Johnson

We have a lot of talent for a nonscholarship team. People just don't understand. They're thinking, 'nonscholarship, I-AA, midmajor.' Don't let that fool you. This is a whole other level. It doesn't get better than this.

Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on.

You listen to everybody, but Shawn played the game. You'd be a fool if you didn't listen to him.

John Paxson

You can have a team full of guys who play hard and hustle, ... But let's not fool ourselves. You need talent to win.

Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Casper Dien

I think it would be foolish to think we are the only life forms in this universe.

Al Groh

I think it would be foolhardy to try to do something with him here.

George Eliot

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.

Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it

Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.

Bob Dylan

A self-ordained professors tongue, too serious to fool ...

Auckland rested some of their key players and I reckon they are just fooling around with everyone. They'll win.

Publilius Syrus

A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be it's slave.

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

I'm ready for some warm weather. Spring has fooled us.

If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools

Richard Hamilton

If we've got a team down, we've got to keep them down. We can't play with them, we can't fool with them. All our losses probably this year, we had a team down 15 or 16 points. So when we've got them down, we've got to keep a foot on the pedal.

If you own your own home free and clear, people will often refer to you as a fool. All that money sitting there, doing nothing.

Lord Byron

I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

George Bernard Shaw

I learned to speak as people learn to skate or cycle, by doggedly making a fool of myself until I got used to it

I made a terrible and foolish mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life.

I'm sure we looked like fools down there, ... but if I had to do it all over again, I would have aimed at the same target.

I'm wanting to wind down, but I like to fool with this stuff. I get started at it and time just gets away from me.