I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That’s never happened to me before, and I’m not sure it’ll ever happen again. I’ve never been in love with anyone before you came along — not real love anyway…not like this. And I’d be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight
Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.
You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?
Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?. . . Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?
To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
How short life is for fools.
The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.
Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
But only a fool sails into combat with nature
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.