Foolproof Quotes

#1. There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, and when I say they are foolproof, that's exactly the case.

Steve Hanke

#2. We feel safer when we can label someone and figure them out, but it's hardly foolproof. 'Good people' are capable of bad behavior. 'Bad people' are capable of good behavior.

Elaina Marie

#3. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

#4. Foolproof depends on the size of the fool

David Mitchell

#5. John teaches us that the strongest relationship with Christ may not necessarily be a complicated one. He teaches us that the greatest webs of loyalty are spun, not with airtight theologies or foolproof philosophies, but with friendships: stubborn, selfless, joyful friendships.

Max Lucado

#6. You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.

Marianne Wiggins

#7. The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

Theodore Sturgeon

#8. As a matter of fact, yeah, they were foolproof. The problem is that you don't have to protect yourself against fools. You have to protect yourself against people like me.

Jeffery Deaver

#9. I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.

Josh Lanyon

#10. A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops.

Alan Davies

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

Alan Coren

#12. If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

Margaret Atwood

#13. Belen shrugs. "It's a perfect plan."
"As easy as falling in love," Mara adds.
"Foolproof," Hector agrees.
I don't deserve such friends. I blink against the sting of threatening tears and say, "All you Joyans are filthy liars.

Rae Carson

#14. Obviously, the best way to remount a chain is to buy an entirely new, fully assembled bike in your favorite color. This is a foolproof method, but time-consuming and expensive.

Jamie Smith

#15. A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

Duncan Sheik

#16. As small, quick, foolproof cameras became generally available, moreover, the camera has been used so much and so flabbily by so many people that it has acted as a sort of contraceptive on the ability to see.

James Agee

#17. In the end I chose the names I still liked after repeating then 100 times. It's a foolproof test. You repeat something 100 times and if you still like it it's because it's good. This doesn't just work for names, it works for anything, food or people.

Juan Pablo Villalobos

#18. Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools

Gene Brown

#19. Culturally idolized beauty is not only foolproof, but potentially dangerous.

Francesca Lia Block

#20. There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

Albert Einstein

#21. I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

Harry Cohn

#22. If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

Frank Abagnale

#23. It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Groucho Marx

#24. The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

Thomas Merton

#25. Never say 'pull yourself together' or 'cheer up' unless you're also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.

Matt Haig

#26. There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.

Os Guinness

#27. I must think of something foolproof for a fool.

Aristophanes

#28. If a robot can be manipulated into doing harm to a man, it means only that we must extend the powers of the positronic brain. One might say we ought to make the human better. That is impossible, so we will make the robot more foolproof.

Isaac Asimov

#29. His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even ... knowledge, was foolproof.

J.K. Rowling

#30. I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

Brian McKnight

#31. Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

Robert Kiyosaki

#32. When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I hadn't known about - more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.

Peg Bracken

#33. It's inconceivable that you don't have to show identification in order to vote or that that the identification doesn't have to be somewhat foolproof.

Donald Trump

#34. Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.

Eike Batista

#35. Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.

Ann Coulter

#36. I think we're fooling ourselves if we think that regulators are going to be able to outsmart the bankers. So, the task of designing regulatory reform is trying to make more or less foolproof regulation and that's one of the advantages of the systemic category.

Robert F. Engle

#37. There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

Edward Teller

#38. The combination of a blazer over any T-shirt with a pair of jeans is foolproof.

Ryan Seacrest

#39. These are the dilemmas for cancer patients. Who and what to believe? A particular treatment is not foolproof, or as many medical experts remind us, is not math, with a fixed and certain outcome.

Tom Brokaw