Top 156 Fooling Quotes & Sayings

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Kentucky Fried Chicken.. KFC... Keep Fooling Customers.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they have sunglasses and hats on and grow out beards thinking that they're fooling people. Dude, you're not fooling anyone: you look just like you.

Pete Townshend keeps fooling us again, selling Who songs to yuppies hungry for SUVs.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

Every time I get a role, I'm surprised. It's like, 'Alright, when am I going to stop fooling them?'

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.

The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

I'm a really a fanatical reviser, and there comes a point where I have to declare a truce with the text, or I'll keep fooling with it forever.

At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem to be falling for it.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

I keep fooling people into giving me jobs, and now I'm on Broadway. It's always something I've wanted to be a part of, and I can't believe that this is the experience I'm having.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

I think if I was fooling the people, over 35 years of it now, I would've been caught already fooling them.

Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

You came along and changed everything. I don’t want to be some guy you’re fooling around with anymore, Rylann. I want to be with you all the way.

A friend is someone who can see the truth and pain in you even when you are fooling everyone else.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.