Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Geoffrey Chaucer

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

George Herbert

Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.

George Herbert

None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

George R. R. Martin

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

George R. R. Martin

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

George Carlin

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

Frederick Buechner

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

Frederick Buechner

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

Ezra Pound

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

Euripides

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

Francis Chan

Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words. That’s what fools do. And often, that’s what we do.

Francis Bacon

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Jean de La Fontaine

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

Iain Glen

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

George Bernard Shaw

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

George Bernard Shaw

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Even tho' thrice again/ The red fool-fury of the Seine/ Should pile her barricades with dead.

William Shakespeare

So true a fool is love that in your will,Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.

Daniel Alfredsson

Once we killed off my penalties, that gave us a lot of momentum. It's something I shouldn't have done, but I had such good position on St. Louis, there's no way I touched him. Maybe it's not the referee's fault, (St. Louis) dives and fools the referee. We were getting a lot of penalties and I just lost it.

Baltasar Gracian

One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all

One day I'm sure they'll keep one of these Mediterranean monstrosities to remember how foolish we all were.

Benjamin Franklin

No workman without tools,/ Nor Lawyer without Fools,/ Can live by their Rules.

Billy Beane

It would be malpractice not to do research. Of course, it would also be malpractice to make a foolish trade.

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.

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

Chad Johnson

They are a completely different team. Don't be fooled about what's going on and the things that I say,

The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks

Oscar Wilde

The world has been made by fools that men should live in it