Fool

Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind, the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not, he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.

The learned is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

'Griot' is a French word which means, you know, really, literally, 'cry.' You know, like the town crier. You know, they come in and say, you know, 'It's nine o'clock, everything is cool.' You know, 'President Bush is a fool.' I mean, stuff like that just to tell you. But for the kind of, the African thing is called djali.

I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

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

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

It's rather nice to think that a song such as 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' is a standard that will be around for many, many years.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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.

Don't hate me 'cause I'm booed a fool!

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.

I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

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

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

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

Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so, but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things, but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.

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.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

No one but a fool is always right.

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.

Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.

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

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

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it, get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

I've never taken a lesson in my life, and I can play every instrument there is. I play by ear, but I can fool anybody into thinking I went to some conservatory of music.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

But go on, valiant champion, you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Man was made to be immortal, else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

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.

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.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

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

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Be wise with speed, a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day, wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil, but they can't fool the neighbors.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

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

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly, he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.

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.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

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

A rich man without charity is a rogue, and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

One fool at least in every married couple.

Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

When emotion rules, every fool thinks that he is holy.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

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.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

I can fool people that I was educated.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it, nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

I have a past of making a fool of myself.