Top 1200 Making A Fool Of Yourself Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

The coolest people reveal themselves gradually, and flirting isn't just about making yourself look great, it's about making him feel great too.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

There is no fool like an old fool.

You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

To let a fool kiss you is bad...To let a kiss fool you is worse. 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tethered to your side. if you can love yourself as I love you there will be no dislocation --- you will be whole. Bring yourself home to me and I will immerse you in very ounce of tenderness I possess. - Sabine Strohem

People say child stars have a hard time 'because of the entertainment business,' but I think there's a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, 'If you're a fool without money, you'll be a fool with money.'

Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and common-sense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to quash them. Constantly ask yourself, "How would I do this if I were a fool?" Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you will never go wrong.

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can't say, so I'm hoping I might take that role.

It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run. As Lincoln observed, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.

Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

I used to tweet, but it's an act of futility. You're not really making any impact, and if you find yourself in a mood when you wanna be a bit controversial and you post something, you suddenly realise, 'Oh my God!' because you've opened yourself up to a bunch of criticism from strangers.