Top 1200 Playing The Fool Quotes & Sayings

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with people. It all goes to show you that we're not all that hard to fool. I think we should just accept that and trust people anyway.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.

You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

I am playing a superhero for kids, and I don't want them to think I'm some dirty fool.

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

You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.