These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t.
Diets are a fool’s errand.
The party lines don’t change, that’s what makes them a party and you’d be a fool to think that just because there’s a black man in there it’s not gonna change the real foundation of the system. Especially when you look at his largest contributor to his campaign, AIG, one of the culprits in the economic meltdown itself.
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.
I don’t want to try to fool people into thinking that I’m something that I’m not.
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.
For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.
If I put a value on my music, and no one’s prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can’t work.
I don’t care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don’t care what people think.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Perhaps the most pernicious strain of contemporary criticism says one thing before it says anything else, says it to whatever historical event or cultural happenstance is supposedly at issue: ‘You can’t fool me.’
I look back at the first Groves fight, and it was all so bad, so wrong. Everyone was telling me it was going to be easy, the bookies, everyone. Like an unprofessional fool, like an idiot, I listened to them. I didn’t give myself the best possible chance.
A show like the ‘Only Fool and Horses’ Christmas special got 24 million viewers, so practically everyone in the country was watching. But of course it’s a different world now, with so many channels. And those kind of figures are really difficult to achieve.
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
I didn’t fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I’d beaten James DeGale.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
I do read all my work aloud as I’m working – this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband’s retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I’m alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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.
A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn’t out to fool people and say ‘Guess which one is me.’
My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I’d be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, ‘Why am I watching this?’ But if he’s whispering, ‘I don’t really want to die,’ there’s a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
I love to make soups. My father used to say, ‘There’s nothing like a nice bowl of soup.’ One of my favorites is… ready? Broccolini, white bean and hot Italian sausage soup. I’ve used escarole. Escarole in beans is unbelievable, or you can use bok choy, any kind. You can really fool around. That’s one of my good ones.
One thing I don’t personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I’m doing more carefully. I’m not going to be acting no fool.
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Fortunately I didn’t get educated because if I’d got educated I’d be an educated fool now.
It is not true that Trump is nobody’s fool. He is the GOP’s.
I’ve never been a disciple of any school. I’ve lived too long. I’ve seen all the schools, I’ve seen people say, I’m sorry, Althusser was wrong after all. You can only do that about three times in your life; after that, you begin to feel like a fool!
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can’t fool anybody into buying a record.
There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.
I’m reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I’m prey to embarrassment – the dread that everyone’s sort of sniggering at you, that you’re going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.
By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.
Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski… he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That’s it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.
Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
I am not a fool. I keep on hearing and seeing the way people misbehave with their coaches and seniors.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I’m no fool.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.
I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
I’m game to make a fool of myself.
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
I mean, I think that – as an actress, in particular, I’m basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
A fool is wise in his eyes.
Don’t let the Disney princess hair fool you.
Don’t let that ‘mom’ word fool y’all… Her being my biggest critic was the best thing for me, actually.
I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself.
Am I a fool? I don’t think I’m a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.
The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.
Any fool can make enough money to survive. It’s another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It’s a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.
If you can fool every single member of the audience into thinking you’re confident and you deserve to be there, everyone will jump on your side.
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool’s sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
