Quotes About Playing The Fool

#1. How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

Mike Mason

#2. People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#3. The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Alexander Pope

#4. Insisting on maintaining dignity at all costs is paralyzing. Mistakes are informative, and so is playing the fool

Patrick Califia-Rice

#5. Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

William Congreve

#6. Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Betting against the point spread is a relatively mechanical trip, but betting against another individual can be very complex, if you're serious about it - because you want to know, for starters, whether you're betting against a fool or a wizard, or maybe against somebody who's just playing the fool.

Hunter S. Thompson

#8. I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

Ben Barnes

#9. Reiko moved on to the Beatles, playing "Norwegian Wood," "Yesterday," "Michelle," and "Something." She sang and played "Here Comes the Sun," then played "The Fool on the Hill." I laid seven matches in a row.

Haruki Murakami

#10. You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

Chili Davis

#11. There's no fool like an old fool
you can't beat experience.

Jacob Braude

#12. There is a God after all. And She watches out for Her own." Dan

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#13. She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

Johnny Mercer

#14. Playing a fool is the best paid role.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#15. The thing is, Calder, it's not always a choice who you develop feelings for. You're playing with fire in more ways than one. Any fool can see the way you two look at each other.

Mia Sheridan

#16. Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

Anthony Liccione

#17. Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking.

Harriet Lerner

#18. It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

Antonio Davis

#19. but he did not change his purpose, nor did the universe invite him to change. It accepted the choice; no more preventing him than it prevents a child playing with fire or a fool destroying his love. It has not our kindness or our decency; if it is good, its goodness is of another kind than ours.

Charles Williams

#20. We all dream; it is a mystery in which all humankind participates. I realize this is an assumption, but it is one that I have no qualms in asserting as fact: the dream is an experiential universal for humanity.

Andrew D. Chumbley

#21. You treated me like a fool and you played with my heart, like it was one of your damn footballs.

Amy Andrews

#22. When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

E. J. Dionne

#23. He found himself playing the love-sick fool vying for a crumb of attention or approval from Genevieve. Anything to make her smile. Make her happy. He'd give her the damn moon if that was what it took.

Maya Banks

#24. Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers.

Thomas Perez

#25. Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

Gordon Lightfoot

#26. I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

Seth Godin

#27. I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.

Charles Hermite

#28. 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

#29. The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

Alan Watts

#30. It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others - playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Robert Greene