A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
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.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
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.
I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fears. Like a lot of English people, I'm prey to embarrassment - the dread that everyone's sort of sniggering at you, that you're going to look like an idiot. I think that sort of halts us all.
Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone.
A fool and his money are soon elected.
It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he is a fool. I can say whatever I want about anybody else because I'm just an idiot talking - I'm not insisting that I'm any smarter than anyone else. It's satire.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.