Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
We learn the most from fools. . . yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.
Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.
It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.
Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.
Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.