“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.” BookRealSometimesHelpingHandsAcceptingWiseImagineFoolDependsOughtKingsDignityImportanceTitlesMeritSlender Book:Essays and The Bee Source: Essays and The Bee
“As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.” LongWishAcceptingFootballSeriousFoolProveClubsUpsetAttractiveInvestorsScandalous Author:Sepp Blatter
“I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.” PeopleWayMindShowsSeemsWould BeFeltInterestingAcceptingWatchesStageFoolInteresting Ways Author:Fiona Apple
“The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.” IfsTryingDoePlayPurposeGamesChanceNumbersAcceptingPlayerProduceFoolOddsLarge NumbersOne Chance Book:The Taming of Chance Source: The Taming of Chance
“What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.” PeopleWantMomentsYoungLife IsHateAcceptingFoolI HateSexyContestsPeachesBe YoungHotterBeauty Contest Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.” AcceptingFoolDown AndFasterPlanesUp And DownDelayedPacingMaking A Fool Of Yourself Author:Noel Coward