Top 50 Play Fool Quotes
#1. Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
Ang'ring itself and others.
William Shakespeare
#2. I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play a couple of songs on guitar. You don't really need to be able to play to compose. There are many composers and arrangers who work out of their heads.
Frankie Laine
#3. In Shakespeare's play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).
Karolina Achirri
#4. Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.
William Shakespeare
#5. 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.
Alan Rickman
#6. Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
William Congreve
#7. I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
Philip Massinger
#8. Now, we know that life is only a stage to play the fool upon as long as the part amuses us. There was one more convenience lacking to modern comfort; a decent, easy way to quit that stage; the back stairs to liberty; or, as I said this moment, Death's private door.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#10. Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
William Shakespeare
#11. It is delightful to play the fool.
Horace
#12. To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Robert E. Sherwood
#13. The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#14. It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
William Hazlitt
#16. When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
Walter Savage Landor
#17. Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .
Cole Porter
#19. They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.
Smokey Robinson
#20. Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.
Roger Glover
#21. I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love.
James Fenimore Cooper
#22. Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.
Horace
#23. him - I was always happy to play the fool if I thought it might give him some pleasure -
Hanya Yanagihara
#25. People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.
Ernie J Zelinski
#26. Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
1. Think short term.
2. Be greedy.
3. Believe in the greater fool
4. Run with the herd.
5. Overgeneralize
6. Be trendy
7. Play with other people's money
Paul Krugman
#27. My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.
Bill Cosby
#28. Then I'd be dead," I pointed out. "Among other things. Fool, there is no sense in trying to play
that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.
Robin Hobb
#29. You don't run from someone and expect them to follow unless you want a stalker," he said. "You fool. All I wanted was to play hide-n-seek!
Donna Lynn Hope
#30. This game is a hell we've all been damned into. It's designed to madden us. The most intelligent Arcana ever to play is called the Fool. The one who least wanted to kill was named Death. And you, Empress, rule over nothing!
Kresley Cole
#31. I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.
Charles Macaulay
#33. Why should I play the Roman fool and die On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them.
William Shakespeare
#34. 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.
Harlan Coben
#35. Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid,
Force many a shining youth into the shade,
Not to redeem his time, but his estate,
And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.
William Cowper
#36. 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.
Dick Dale
#37. The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#38. I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
Maria Callas
#39. I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.
Britt Daniel
#40. Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?
John Locke
#41. Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.
Richard Dawkins
#42. Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
Roone Arledge
#43. No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile
#44. A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.
Ameen Rihani
#45. He is a romantic, a dreamer, and never afraid to play the fool. He is fearless and reckless and brave and I love him for it. Desperately.
Stacey Jay
#47. Any man who undertakes to write a play is either a damned fool or a hero, I don't know which. When you write a book, you pull it out of the typewriter and that's that. When you write a play you've got to go on with the producer and the director and the actors and the rehearsals and the ...
Rex Stout
#48. I want to give [my records] all away before some fool plays disco at my funeral, and then the record gets stuck, and nobody can tell, and the service goes on forever!
Robert Patrick
#50. People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]
Edward Abbey
