Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there’s actually nothing there to learn from.
When I left school I went on trip around the world – I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It’s probably one of my big regrets in life.
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
I know a lot of people think I’m dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool.
I think you can fool people once but you can’t fool the people all the time.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
The Doobie Brothers’ ‘What a Fool Believes’ makes me want to move. And I still haven’t gotten over the Macarena. Who has?
Many thought it was a fool’s errand – that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, ‘Users don’t care if you use Web standards.’ Well, of course they don’t. They just know that your site works better.
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
When you’re arguing with a fool, you’re the fool for even going back and forth.
I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
I used to worry I’d make a fool of myself, but I don’t care what anyone thinks of me anymore.
I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
I pity the fool who just gives up.
I’m expecting the best John Thompson. I’d be a fool to expect anything less.
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
I’m genuinely a big softie, I put this front on, and I’m just a laid-back fool really.
Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that’s too selfish a course of action to impose on my family.
There are a lot of dope people in the DMV: WillThaRapper, Big Flock, GoldLink, Logic, IDK, Rico Nasty, Goonew and Q Da Fool. Seeing them get national attention motivated me to do my thing.
You can fool a lot of yourself but you can’t fool the soul.
It’s rather nice to think that a song such as ‘What Kind of Fool Am I?’ is a standard that will be around for many, many years.
Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
That fame monster’s a fool, man. It really is.
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It’s not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
I was watching TV, and there was a girl acting a fool. And I was like, ‘I could do that.’
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
One fool at least in every married couple.
Don’t let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool – for every role you play you’ve got to absorb that character’s motives and justifications.
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.
Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That’s what the enemy thinks too. But we’re gonna fool them.
You can’t fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
Only a fool pokes a mama bear, but that’s Merrick Garland for you. The attorney general thought to be such a moderate that 20 Republicans confirmed his nomination turns out to be a radical ideologue hellbent on targeting President Biden’s political foes.
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
I would be a fool to say I enjoyed being in borstal, but when I was there I had a great time.
Regret’s kind of like a fool’s game.
I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things – almost like a Shakespearean fool.
Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can’t fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you’re interested without making a fool out of yourself.
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’m not a fool with my money. I’ve known what it’s like to be poor and I don’t splash it around stupidly.
In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
I am not a fool. I know where I stand in terms of box office returns.
I had always told my people, ‘If you set me up to get ‘Punk’d,’ I ain’t never speaking to you again, because you aren’t going to have me looking like no fool on TV.’
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 Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
You can fool the people once, twice, but you can’t fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.
When you’re around some of the greatest minds in boxing, and you don’t take something from it, you’re a fool. I would just sit and listen to Don King talk all day, and everyone would be like, ‘He talks too much.’ I would tell them, ‘No, there’s wisdom in these conversations.’
It’s very easy to fool yourself that you’re working, you know, when you’re really not working very hard. I mean, I’m very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go – quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.
You need talent, dedication, skills, perseverance and so many other things to become successful. If you think you are very talented but someone needs to unveil your talent, then you are living in a fool’s paradise. You have to prove yourself every day.
The owner of a company with supertight margins – say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods – would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
I guess if you’re stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
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.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
I’d be making a fool of myself if I thought I was a rapper.
I think the only way to get attention is to act like a complete ignorant fool.
Anybody who can drive and doesn’t come out of it a rich man is a fool.
As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
The loser, the fool, is embraced in England because there is a recognition of silliness there that allows a person to keep his ambitions and desires at a certain distance. Just being in the race is enough.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they’ll be here forever.
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.
