Quotes About Fool's Hope

#1. Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. "There never was much hope," he answered. "Just a fool's hope, as I have been told.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

Bob Hope

#3. Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#4. 20. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Anonymous

#5. Most fools think he is the wisest person but the most wise person thinks he is a fool.

Debasish Mridha

#6. It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose ... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.

William Mapother

#7. I hope he didn't cross Kaz Brekker," Nina said with a shudder.
"Wylan wouldn't--"
"Of course not," said Nina as she shook out the cuffs of her kefta and prepared to exit the dining room." Only a fool would.

Leigh Bardugo

#8. Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures.

Debasish Mridha

#9. I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.

Amber Heard

#10. All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

Bertolt Brecht

#11. But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head?

Flann O'Brien

#12. Hope was a fool's emotion.

Sarah MacLean

#13. It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#14. Creon: See that you never side with those who break my orders.
Leader: Never. Only a fool could be in love with death.
Creon: Death is the price - you're right. But all too often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.

Sophocles

#15. I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all ... except what you can't be rid of.

Marilynne Robinson

#16. Of how many a man may it not be said that hope made a fool of him until he danced into the arms of death!

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

Michael Flynn

#18. Some might call me a fool; I hope when there is no hope to be found, I love when there is no one left, and I chase the the dreams I will never achieve. But I know that if I keep reaching for things that seem impossible, I can rise to something greater than I had ever hoped.

Anonymous

#19. A fool thinks he is always right, a wise person always doubts himself.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.

Stephen King

#21. Only a fool unleashes the storm winds of fear, Ralf. Since no man has the power to direct how they may blow, they could just as easily destroy those who hope most to benefit from them, although the innocent always suffer long before that happens.

Priscilla Royal

#22. For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I am a lover of love and I am a lover of words, and the two together spin visions of airy castles, but also may pierce the heart of hope. And so I remind you that I am a fool, a poet, and what matters is reality, not lovely words. Words are full of promise, yet empty of matter.

Waylon H. Lewis

#24. Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but ... well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.

Brandon Sanderson

#25. 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

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

Albert Camus

#27. I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

George Bernard Shaw

#28. They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right! It is of no greater or lesser import for yet another fool to wander this Earth. But if I am right and science is wrong, then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind!

Viktor Schauberger

#29. There are people who follow me on Twitter and tell me how much they don't like me, how much they don't want me on the show, and that they hope I die. And it's not just about the character. They tell me how they've never liked Scott Foley, and that he's a stupid, white, plain-bread looking fool.

Scott Foley

#30. When you are honest, loving, and kind people may think that you are weak, naive, and a fool but be loving, kind, and honest anyway.

Debasish Mridha

#31. And then we met." He wanted to laugh but his throat felt too tight for laughter. "The most wonderful woman imaginable, and a man who is a stubborn fool."

"You left out arrogant," Emily said. Her voice wobbled a little, just enough to give him hope. "A stubborn, arrogant fool.

Sandra Marton

#32. Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.

Brendan O'Carroll

#33. No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.

Sheri Holman

#34. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.

Dean Koontz

#35. There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance. Don't fool yourselves - it's all adding up and one of these days we're going to pay the bill for it. I hope it's not in you children's time.

Harper Lee

#36. Every wise person I meet I hope to be, for every fool I know is in agony.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#37. Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?

Joanna Garcia

#38. I hope she'll be a fool
that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#39. No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Thomas Vernor Smith

#40. A man is a fool to live in hopes of a better tomorrow. I have a thousand, better ways today to spend what time remains ahead of me, and I have brighter, lighter and more pleasant places in which to spend it.

Jack Whyte

#41. It is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait
a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.

Hope Mirrlees

#42. You certainly can't be a perfect person, coming up with the 100% correct solution, all the time. It's just a combination of a chain of good decisions that comes up with a successful product or a successful film. That's what you hope for. But, nothing about the system is 100% fool proof.

Rick Heinrichs

#43. Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.
Another is Deity.
The choice to be a fool is yours.

Vera Nazarian