People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.
My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
I went on the 'Letterman' show the first time to plug something, and then I came back as the Fool, the court jester.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
A fool and her money are soon courted.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
