Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Safire

Because that would be foolish politically, and I think there's a lot of practicality going on.

Harry A. Blackmun

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

Grady Booch

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

Harold Evans

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

Harold MacMillan

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

Gwen Stefani

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Danny Kaye

A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

Danny Kaye

An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.

Benjamin Franklin

There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.

William Shakespeare

So true a fool is love that in your will,Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.

Daniel Alfredsson

Once we killed off my penalties, that gave us a lot of momentum. It's something I shouldn't have done, but I had such good position on St. Louis, there's no way I touched him. Maybe it's not the referee's fault, (St. Louis) dives and fools the referee. We were getting a lot of penalties and I just lost it.

Baltasar Gracian

One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all

This is a 'fool me once' kind of situation. We're not going to be fooled again.

Oscar Wilde

The world has been made by fools that men should live in it

Rod Woodson

I've seen that route every day in practice, and I've seen it every Sunday for 12 years, you're not going to fool me on that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

George Herbert

While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. [While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]

Georg C. Lichtenberg

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

George Washington

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

You start out as if you're going to fool them, and the minute your mind strays to anything else, you revert to the way you normally write.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

George Eliot

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

I made a terrible and foolish mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life.

Karl Marx

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

William Blake

Great Men & Fools do often me InspireBut the Greater Fool the Greater Liar.

Homer

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

Homer

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Robert Burns

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Richard Steele

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Gabrielle Reece

No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that.

Herta Muller

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.