Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.
That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.
I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself.
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.