Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.
Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.
I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.
Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
No one but a fool is always right.
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
