Fool Errand Quotes

#1. You wake up every morning with a smile on your face because you've got a new day you never expected to have. And there's a sense of wonderment. Nothing short of magical.

Dick Cheney

#2. It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

Roger Caras

#3. 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.

Jesse Kellerman

#4. Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#5. I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

Kool Keith

#6. There sometimes isn't much difference between a knight's quest and a fool's errand. - Drew

Morgan Matson

#7. There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.

Brandon Boyd

#8. He that goes before the cloud of God's providence goes on a fool's errand;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Hamish smiled and rubbed his hands together. "Sure we can. What do you say? Pigs in a Blanket?" He leaned over the cool counter and raised his eyebrows at Gabrielle.
"The only way I'll get under a blanket with you is if both of us are on fire," she told him.

Ally Carter

#10. He found the cone and bit into it. "I'm not an errand boy." No, he wasn't. He was a fool, which made him even lower on the pole.

Steve Berry

#11. My silence doesn't mean I don't know what goes around me, but what goes around me don't deserve my words.

Eyden I.

#12. If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.

Gary Thomas

#13. It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool's errand.

Zia Haider Rahman

#14. Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#15. Diets are a fool's errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it's chocolate or a cookie. If I don't, I guarantee you that there's going to be a day every week when I'm going to stuff myself, especially if it's PMS time.

Evangeline Lilly

#16. I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

Jonathan Krohn

#17. If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

Jimmy Rushing

#18. Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool's errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

Bill Ackman

#19. Read and write what you like. Rinse, repeat.

Verge LeNoir

#20. A fool's errand, Little One. If you waited until all my wounds were healed, you would be here forever.

Tiffany Reisz

#21. Solving a problem created by debt ... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

Olivier Sarkozy

#22. Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Ellen Glasgow

#23. We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme.

Paul Watson

#24. A man on a quest. A Don Quixote searching for his Dulcinea. But keep in mind my good friend, Don Quixote never found his Dulcinea, did he? He did not. There sometimes isn't much difference between a knight's quest and a fool's errand.

Morgan Matson

#25. Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

Rosemary Mahoney

#26. Anybody who has traveled this far on a fool's errand," said Salo, "has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools by completing the errand.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#27. It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bill O'Reilly

#29. Diets are a fool's errand.

Evangeline Lilly

#30. Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

Kylie Tennant

#31. Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool's errand.

Matt Chandler

#32. This is the hill you want to die on? Really? A we-can-be-just-friends speech?

Lauren Dane

#33. Many die too late, and some die too early.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but resolutely - can an investor prosper over time. But for a while, a value investor typically underperforms.

Seth Klarman

#35. Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#36. For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand.

Mike Pompeo