fool

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

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.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.