Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
A fool and his words are soon parted.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
While everyone usually turns up late at Bollywood parties, I always reach these places on time and end up making a fool of myself.
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself.
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
April Fool is widely considered one of the top yachts ever built by Feadship, the famed Dutch shipyard. Launched in 2006, April Fool has a huge master stateroom, a Jacuzzi on the fourth-level sun deck, a sauna, and sprawling outdoor dining lounge. The yacht first came onto the market in 2011 with a price of $69.5 million.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.
