I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.
I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.
The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
Faith is the fool's excuse.
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan.
We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.
I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.
There is no fool like an old fool.
Even if I make a fool of myself, it's better to have tried.
That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.
Give fools the first and women the last word.
I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.
Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.