I laugh all the time about our investigation, especially about making a fool of David Duke, who likes to think I don’t have the intelligence of an ape because he thinks I’m genetically inferior.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
I really love pets. They’re like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can’t fool them.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
I’m a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
When I do music, I have a hard time experiencing it like everyone else, because there’s so much thought that goes into it. You can sometimes fool yourself into thinking it’s better than what it is, which stops me from being creative on the next thing I do.
While everyone usually turns up late at Bollywood parties, I always reach these places on time and end up making a fool of myself.
Any fool can talk, but not everyone can listen, receive, and process information.
I’ve been using the same ‘I Ching’ since I was teenager when it was given to me by a fellow teenager; it seems too late to change now. I don’t use it often, but when I do, it really does help. You can fool yourself, but not the ‘I Ching.’
I went on the ‘Letterman’ show the first time to plug something, and then I came back as the Fool, the court jester.
I wasn’t born a fool. It took work to get this way.
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.
People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he’s out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can’t win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you’re 52? Nobody’s going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It’s nice that you got to be so old. It’s a blessing.
There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don’t relive it, recreate it.
After I got cut by the UFC for not making weight, I realized I was making myself look like a fool. I was hurting my team. I was hurting my family. I was hurting myself.
I don’t fool myself. I can’t see myself doing Shakespeare.
I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool’s Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
I don’t fool with a lot of things that I can’t have fun with. There’s not much reward in that.
Even a fool knows you can’t touch the stars, but it won’t keep the wise from trying.
He’s a fool that marries, but he’s a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
Treat a boy like a fool and he’ll act like a fool, I say, but there’s some folks need convincing.
Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it’s still daytime, even though it’s night-time and you want to get to sleep.
I don’t really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there’s scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
I’m not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It’s just not one of my insecurities.
You can’t fool children.
A lot of times, somebody will say something and it will give you a good title. So you carry a pencil with you and jot that down. You don’t just write a song right quick, though. You fool around and work with it. You have to keep going over and over it and see if you can’t write a song that means something.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Any fool can be happy. What I’m interested in is satisfaction. There’s got to be more to life than just being happy. You’ve got to be fulfilled. You’ve got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.
I’m never one to act a fool. Not at home and not in public.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
You know you’re a fool when what you’re doing makes even the post office seem efficient.
When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn’t know that my wedding was tacky. I didn’t know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.
I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
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.
I remember learning how to play ‘The Fool On The Hill’ on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.
People love Batman, and I would be stupid, I would be a fool if I didn’t love Batman.
I enjoy passing time in my house. I’ll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
I’ve been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it’s the last one.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Kids are smart: don’t underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don’t even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Before I even started to school, I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air and try to fool people who came by to listen.
Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they’re always going to sound like a fool.
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
Looking into Linda’s eyes when she walks down the aisle, and knowing that’s the lady I’m going to be with for the rest of my life. I’m going to be crying like a fool. But I knew from the moment I met her that she was the one for me.
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.
If I’m given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.
It is very difficult to play beside Messi and whoever understands it any other way is a fool.
You can’t depend on the kind of folks people think they are – you’ve got to go by what they do. And I wouldn’t give much for a man that some folks hadn’t thought was a fool, in his time.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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.
No person can fool all the people all the time.
Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.
‘Fool If You Think It’s Over’ is still the only song I’ve ever not played guitar on, but it just so happened to be my first single, and it just so happened to be a massive hit. It was in the U.S. Top 10 for seven weeks.
I’ve no wish to run into a contest and make a fool of myself, leaving my career in a cul-de-sac. I want to be a success in the sport of bodybuilding.
If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you’re a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you’re mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.
If you’re an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you’re much younger than you are because you’re playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.
