Zitat des Tages über Täuschen / Fool:
Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
You never really see me acting a fool on TV.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool.
I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
