Top 100 Like A Fool Quotes
#1. I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.
Sri Chinmoy
#3. There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. ( ... ) How nothing touched me. And I touched nothing. How I'd lost track of what mattered. How I worked like a fool for things that didn't. How it didn't make a difference either way.
Haruki Murakami
#4. Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.
Baruch Spinoza
#5. A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day.
John Williams
#6. They'd even made him imitate the different patterns of the bells. A necessity, but he'd felt like a fool chanting, Bing bong bing bing bong. No, wait, bing bing bong bing bing.
Leigh Bardugo
#7. Bobby Orr had lots of moves and speed. You had to be careful or he would make you look like a fool. Jacques was impresed how quickly he caught up to Yvan Cournoyer one night when the Habs were playing the Bruins. I didn't think the kid had that kind of speed.
Jacques Lemaire
#8. When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.
Neil Patrick Harris
#9. Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.
Sandra Brown
#10. I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along.
Will Ferrell
#11. Everything's over, I thought. I felt rested, I'm home, I have lots to do. When I sat up in bed, though, all I did was start to cry like a fool, for no apparent reason.
Roberto Bolano
#12. I am in love with someone who's afraid of the future. And like a fool, I keep bringing it up.
David Levithan
#13. I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense.
Charlaine Harris
#14. The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.
Jay Bilas
#15. When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
Robin Hobb
#16. It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#17. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
Oriah Dreamer
#18. For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.
Max Irons
#19. Whatever you do, act as if you meant to do it even if you're sure you look like a fool.
Tracy Anne Warren
#20. That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can be one- sometimes the other. But never both.
Ally Carter
#21. Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that
reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.
Darynda Jones
#22. To make another human being feel like a fool is a terrible sin," he once told Heiner. "It is soul murder.
Peter Mommsen
#23. I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#24. You see, baby, you have to protect yourself. If you don't protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you. I thought about that for a second. She was right. A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her.
Maya Angelou
#25. A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
Christian Louboutin
#26. This letter has gotten foolish, and I think you know how I detest looking like a fool. But still I do. For you.
Kiera Cass
#27. After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
John Le Carre
#28. If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
Theophrastus
#29. I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.
Fiona Apple
#30. In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
Criss Jami
#31. One of the things it channelled in me was that experience that I'd had of wearing a big red leather thing on my upper torso in Daredevil with a mask I couldn't see through and an outfit that completely inhibited movement, feeling humiliated and like a fool. I just recalled that.
Ben Affleck
#32. There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical rules, but I'm sure if you came to the Oscars in ripped jeans and a t-shirt they wouldn't throw you out. You would just look like a fool.
Glen Hansard
#33. And like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change
There's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love's just ain't enough
Patty Smyth
#34. Perseverance....
It sometimes makes you look like a fool
Working at something that that doesn't look cool.
Never mind if people mock you from their stool
When you are enthroned they will drool!
Manuela George-Izunwa
#35. Don't expect others to understand or approve of your life. Be willing to look like a fool.
Eric Ludy
#36. Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I
Robin Hobb
#37. Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.
Mason Cooley
#38. You treated me like a fool and you played with my heart, like it was one of your damn footballs.
Amy Andrews
#39. If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.
Chael Sonnen
#40. Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
Eric Clapton
#41. If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.
Radhanath Swami
#42. I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn't dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don't tell me judges don't try to prejudice juries.
Harper Lee
#43. And, like a fool, she kissed him back. Kissed him a way that would leave no doubt about the way she felt about him. Kissed him because she knew the chances were slim she'd have very many kisses like that in her lifetime.
Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.
Cinda Williams Chima
#44. Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.
Monica Ali
#45. Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.
Marianne Williamson
#46. Every time I see you with sunbae, I always feel unhappy. This time the same thing happened. Why is it not me but another woman? This is not the first, but the second time. I'm always like this. Just like a fool.
Kim A-joong
#47. I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Montesquieu
#48. They like the illusion that there's enough security in a marriage to act like a fool without worrying about judgement
Alice Yi-Li Yeh
#49. Nothing wrong with looking like a fool if what you are doing is far from foolish.
Paulo Coelho
#50. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
Ally Carter
#51. Feeling like a fool, he went to convince Jane to water her crabs.
Virginia Kantra
#52. Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.
Xenophon
#53. And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
Nora Ephron
#54. I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read.
Jeff VanderMeer
#55. Somewhere after the dinner was served and before the cake was cut, Isabella lost Ben. Everyone at their table was up dancing and mingling. Isabella sat there and drank wine. She felt like a fool.
Jennifer Close
#56. I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you.
Sara Quin
#57. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
Ogden Nash
#58. My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.'
We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
Ernest Hemingway,
#60. Screaming into the abyss is different than having a direct conversation with someone. Like, you can't bore or disappoint or weird out the abyss? There's no pressure involved. No chance of rejection. No chance of looking like a fool.
Unknown
#61. Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.
Sarah Louise Delany
#62. That's the problem with mistakes. You can make'em in an instant. Years upon years spent tiptoeing about like a fool, then you take your eye away for a moment and ... Bang.
Joe Abercrombie
#63. One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same ... beautiful.
Tommy Emmanuel
#64. We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
Ernest Hemingway,
#65. When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.
Hulk Hogan
#66. I am an alien, I have extraordinary powers, with more to come, and I can do things that no human would dream of, but I still look like a fool.
Pittacus Lore
#67. A person's got to be scared all the time - of God, if there is one, and of looking like a fool if there isn't.
Josef Skvorecky
#68. Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been better thrown away. Ah, Frank! I thought you were going to be down here fucking Lana.
Ava Gardner
#69. One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.
Bob Dylan
#70. The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
Alfred Bester
#71. You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is not some other kind of creature than we are. Whiteness is not sacred. It can't on defining everything.
Sue Monk Kidd
#72. When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Zoe Kazan
#73. That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
Patricia Highsmith
#74. When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.
Niecy Nash
#75. Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'
Tom Ford
#76. Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#77. Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#78. You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record crazy on a sunday night. You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breath, shine like the sun buzz like a bee, just the thought of you can drive me wild. Oh you make me smile. -Uncle Kracker-
Uncle Kracker
#79. The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
Stendhal
#80. Do I seem like a fool to you?"
"Peep!"
"Is that a yes?
Misty Kayn
#81. I knew that I just didn't have it in me to give up, even if I sometimes felt like a fool for continuing to believe.
Misty Copeland
#82. Though I might walk where angels fear to tread, I try not to rush in like a fool.
Mark Lawrence
#83. When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.
Robin Hobb
#85. Never had anyone said, Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.
Cathie Pelletier
#86. ...and I realized not without a sinking feeling that he was already completely in Feely's thrall, hanging on her every word like ball on a rubber string, nodding like a demented woodpecker, and grinning like a fool.
Alan Bradley
#87. It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.
Julia Glass
#88. Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had muffled it.
Kurt Vonnegut
#89. Don't look like a fool with your pants on the ground!
Larry Platt
#90. He may be the one dressed like a fool, but it seemed the title was reserved for her.
Marissa Meyer
#91. Wearily, she sat up. Jesus was not coming today. She would have to die later, she decided. There was no use lying out here like a fool in the rain. One step, she thought. One step and then the next gets you where you're going.
Robert McCammon
#92. And it had worked; he had looked like a fool when he attempted to call out the general. What I and the general had underestimated were the number of other assembly members who would willingly continue to follow a fool.
John Scalzi
#93. You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool's end.
Mario Puzo
#95. She had always called me 'you.' 'Is that you?' on the telephone, 'Can you? Will you? Do you?' so that I imagined, like a fool, for a few minutes at a time, there was only one 'you' in the world and that was me.
Graham Greene
#96. I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman.
L.M. Montgomery
#97. It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.
Mick Jagger
#98. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
David Gries
#100. And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool can be jumped up, but a fool can also be thrown down; and who is going to catch me then?
Philippa Gregory
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