A fool and his money are soon parted.
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
One fool at least in every married couple.
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Yes, for most people the spring stats can fool you. But watching the way he's throwing the ball, he's backed off and pitched, not thrown. He's more letting the pitches work for him and letting the ball move for him and locating. He's not trying to overthrow or overpower hitters, but just make his pitches and have them put the ball in play.
Yes, but it's my life has been wasted, And I have been the fool, To let this manufacturer use my body for a tool, I can ride home in the evening, Staring at my hands, Swearing by my sorrow that a young girl, Ought to stand a better chance, So may I w
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness
This problem is exploding in the face of the government. They have politicized it so much they are making fools of themselves. There's the image of Paris burning and that is very, very bad.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
No one should fool anyone that this is going to happen overnight ... because the health system is so complex.
Only a fool would subject themselves to questioning by seven investigators as some sort of publicity stunt.
No one's quite sure if he's a genius or a fool, the difference sometimes seems so close. But I think he knows exactly what he's doing.
Next week we will be millionaires (Only Fools and Horses)
New homes sales sprang back to life like a zombie in a cheap horror flick. And like that zombie, housing really is dead. Don't let all that twitching fool you.
Nothing is 100 percent fool proof. We've tested it in simulations, but until you get the real thing you don't know for sure.
RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.
I don't know him, but ... he'd definitely make our team a lot better. I'd be a fool not to say that. A guy like that would make everybody around him better.
I don't know why he ran from the car, I know we can all speculate . . . but he was a fool, he's quit the captaincy, he's paid a price . . . . He's a fool because it's not a good image for a captain of a football club. But he's been dealt with by the club under the code of conduct.
I'd be a fool to say we don't miss them.
I'd be a fool to say 'No, we weren't happy' to beat somebody we've lost to seven straight times since I've been here.
I'd be a fool to say I wasn't looking at the clock every couple seconds.
I'd be a fool if I said I wasn't looking at the clock every couple of seconds. But we played really hard. I was just excited to be in this position. Obviously it hurts to lose, we're all sore losers. But they have five NBA players on their team, they were bigger than us at every spot.
I'd be a fool if I said I didn't look at the clock every couple of seconds.
But a person's a fool if they think you can take a serious punt on when that exactly will happen.
I'm a success inasmuch that I enjoy my life, which is an enormous blessing and that doesn't depend on commercial success (though I wouldn't be such a fool as to deny that it helps).
I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play.
He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.
He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him.
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
He doesn't fool around out there, does he? He gets the ball and throws it. This guy learned how to put different pressure points on the ball to make the ball move. This guy is the best I've ever seen.
There is no fool who has not his own kind of sense
His private affair is a private matter. Clearly he looks a fool but our job in opposition is to call him to account on his ministerial record.
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
I was a fool three years ago. One is always a fool three years ago.
I thought the game was over. I'm a complete idiot. I was jumping up and down like a fool out there. I thought Gee's basket won the game for us.
I think to ignore that piece of work is foolish on any number of levels, ... I think it's a tragic mistake for anybody who really wants to think seriously about those issues - about the issues of race relations in the United States - and how we as a society deal with any kind of contentious issue. ...If you're concerned about race relations issues in the United States today to ignore 'Birth of a Nation' is to put aside a tool that can tell you a lot.
It is impossible for the fools to tread the path of learned ones.
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
Penalties set up a touchdown for them and took away scoring opportunities from us. We had some foolish penalties and some guys got one who hadn't had one in two years.
I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire
I think it would be foolish to think we are the only life forms in this universe.
I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.
Well, as I characterize most of them, they're all gimmicks, gimmicks to fool the taxpaying public that they're going to get some kind of tax relief.
That was a thing we were getting away from when the equity markets were on a tear. Everybody thought you were a fool to get into anything else.
You listen to everybody, but Shawn played the game. You'd be a fool if you didn't listen to him.
We had to win. We couldn't go back to Boston looking like a bunch of fools.
We had to win or we would have headed home looking like fools.
Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on.
True fops help nature's work, and go to school - to file and finish God Almighty's fool
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
There are several issues on which Washington should not fool itself - a Merkel government would take the same stance on (the) Kyoto (Protocol on global warming) and the environment as well on as the International Criminal Court.
There are reasons why people pay for high growth, and they typically overpay. It's a fool's game, and it keeps going until it doesn't keep going.
When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek
You had to be a fool not to realize that.
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisitesto be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurancethere are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.
BONDSMAN, n. A fool who, having property of his own, undertakes to become responsible for that entrusted to another to a third. Philippe of Orleans wishing to appoint one of his favorites, a dissolute nobleman, to a high office, asked him what security he would be able to give. ""I need no bondsmen,"" he replied, ""for I can give you my word of honor."" ""And pray what may be the value of that?"" inquired the amused Regent. ""Monsieur, it is worth its weight in gold.
Even tho' thrice again/ The red fool-fury of the Seine/ Should pile her barricades with dead.
Don't let them fool you that we have a deal. We don't. We're not going to have a rush job here and vote for that much of a bill that we haven't read,
Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. (Proverbs 17:28)
Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks
The right answer to a fool is silence
RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another aspect.
Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from the Motley Fool.
A fool tries to shut others' mouth instead of listens to his own heart.
A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness
A fool, but an honest fool, you remain, Peregrin Took. Wiser ones migth have done worse in such a pass. But mark this! You have been saved, and all your friends too, mainly by good fortune, as it is called.
Spending all that money for a one-day hit is a fool's errand. If you're smart, you use your Super Bowl presence to feed your business through the rest of the year.
Anybody who writes us off now is a fool.
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra.
Any fool can cause a strike. But no fool can resolve one.
As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.
Anyone who takes him to be a fool will be very sorry.
Anyone who says that someone is a sure bet for an Oscar is a fool. There's no such thing as a sure thing, least of all in a five-way vote.
This is a 'fool me once' kind of situation. We're not going to be fooled again.
Always remember, money isn't everything -- but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
This market is going to fool the greatest number of people by doing what it's not supposed to do.
This looks like another attempt by the king to fool the people. It is a desperate attempt to save the regime.
For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings / I bore this wren till I was tired with soaring, / And now he mounts above me.
Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence
Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools
Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me, ... I don't think people are going to fall for that one again.
It's not easy to perform in front of your teammates and make a fool out of yourself.
It's the end-of-the-year foolishness time, where you can run it up and run it down $10 on no news. I think it's a sell. But the downside in gold is limited.
don't be a fool, son. We didn't even have a horse.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
Then sing as Martin Luther sang:"Who loves not wine, woman, and song,He is a fool his whole life long!