Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

Sharon Tate

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

Sienna Miller

I definitely have been foolish.

Sebastian Faulks

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

Mason Cooley

Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

Michael Chabon

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

Mignon McLaughlin

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

John Milton

A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

Norm MacDonald

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

P. J. O'Rourke

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

Socrates

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

P. T. Barnum

There is a fool born every minute

Nicolas Massu

I don't want to fool anyone, we should win and it should be a strong victory. But we have to be very serious about it.

I'm sure we looked like fools down there, ... but if I had to do it all over again, I would have aimed at the same target.

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool.

If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools

Richard Hamilton

If we've got a team down, we've got to keep them down. We can't play with them, we can't fool with them. All our losses probably this year, we had a team down 15 or 16 points. So when we've got them down, we've got to keep a foot on the pedal.

If you own your own home free and clear, people will often refer to you as a fool. All that money sitting there, doing nothing.

I'm ready for some warm weather. Spring has fooled us.

It was more horseplay than anything else, fooling around,

It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids.

It's foolish sheep that makes the wolf its confessor

It should be a high-scoring game, but I've been fooled before. We may have to outscore them, I don't know. We'll see.

Doris Lessing

In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools

I'm wanting to wind down, but I like to fool with this stuff. I get started at it and time just gets away from me.

Margaret Mitchell

I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

George Bernard Shaw

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

George Bernard Shaw

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Lord Byron

I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Gregory Campbell

I don't know if it was a good shot or just a quick shot but I might have fooled him.