Quotes of: Fooled Keyword

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Norman Douglas

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Walter Lippmann

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

William Shakespeare

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

Brendan I. Koerner

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

Tom Wolfe

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

William Hazlitt

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

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.

Junior Seau

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Bruce Lee

It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.

Flannery O'Connor

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

Francois Rabelais

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Horace

Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses it And who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.

Idries Shah

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Josh Billings

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

Julie Burchill

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

John le Carre

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

Don Roff

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

Denis Thatcher