Fool Quotes

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.

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

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.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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 don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.

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.

When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek.

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.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.