Best fool & lasts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'”

Firsts Eye Lasts Joy Wise Mines Fool Notes Silent Breasts Silver Shore Throat Farewell Geese Swans Firsts And Lasts

Author:Orlando Gibbons

“Ho, Ho, Sir Surgeon. You are too delicate to tell the man that he is ill. You hope to heal the sick without their knowing it. You therefore flatter them. And what happens? They laugh at you. They dance upon their own graves and at last they die. Your delicacy is cruelty, your flatteries are poisons you are a murderer. Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumber from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God we will not.”

“Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.”

Firsts Lasts Next Poet Fool Critics Wit

Author:Alexander Pope

“Give fools the first and women the last word.”

Giving Firsts Lasts Fool Last Words

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“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 .”

World Play Lasts Laughing Fool Clown Calves World Love

Author:Cole Porter

“You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.”

Lasts Next Speak Fool Battle The Next One Great Battle

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.”

Firsts Looks Two Lasts Past Law Party Fashion Fool Description Customs Novelty Clash Legislators Precedent

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”

Doe Wisdom Motivational Lasts Wise Stupid Fool Life Changing Wrestling Playing The Fool

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.”

Lasts Past Wish Enjoy Hours Teach Masters Fool Approach Skillful

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth. Then perish the fools who forged the (religious) traditions or interpreted them!”

Firsts Book Reason Facts Lasts Religious Fiction Fool Tradition Sacred Forged Religious Traditions

Author:Al-Maʿarri

“New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.”

Thinking Lasts Style Fool Towns Dresses Newness

Book:The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

Source: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

“Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.”

“Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.”

Men Firsts May Moments Lasts Winning Opinion Wise Fool Argument Sticks

Book:Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms

“I think you have to be careful about not hurting someone. The last thing I'd want to do is make a fool of someone, unless they saw the humor in it.”

Thinking Want Lasts Hurt Saws Fool Careful Be Careful Hurting Someone

Author:Charlyne Yi

“Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.”

Knows Want Years Lasts Pleasure Know How Plans Failing Minutes Dog Fool Twenties Supreme Planning Cunning Last Minute

Author:Wallace Stegner

“Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you can... Never stay too long in your bed. Never lose your heart, use your head... Never take a stranger's advice. Never let a friend fool you twice... Never be the first to believe. Never be the last to deceive... Never leave a moment too soon. Never waste a hot afternoon... Never stay a minute too long. Don't forget the best will go wrong... Better learn to go it alone. Recognise you're out on your own. Nobody's on nobody's side.”

“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.”

Looks Soul Lasts Lost Fool Adore Looking Good Adoration Complexion Adore You

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.”

People Trying Years Looks Two Bigs Lasts Three Justice White Forget Millions Fool Lows Killing Lowest Feeding Kill Me Lynching Equality And Justice Depriving

Author:Muhammad Ali

“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”

“Everything has been for the [President] election for the last couple of months. Since the Democratic National Convention, it's been a dead run to get out as much content as possible and do as much as possible. Then, I go back to writing the screenplay I was working on, which is an original piece - a period piece that I will hopefully finish a couple of months after that, and hopefully I can convince some unsuspecting fool studio to buy.”

Writing Has Beens I Can Running Lasts President Pieces Fool Months Couple Periods Originals Election Democratic Studios Hopefully Convince Conventions Screenplays Unsuspecting

Author:Joss Whedon

“My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.”

Years Kind Has Beens Lasts Friendship Feet Stage Fool Dancing My Best Friend

Author:Steven Tyler

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”

Men Wells May Done Lasts Young Race Class Share Fool Young Man Repeats Old Man

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.”

Source: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition

“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”

Ifs Men Firsts Whole Lasts Courses Animal Land Ignorance Fool Built Intelligent Plant Useless Wheels Mechanism Last Words Precaution Cogs Tinkering Land Conservation

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.”

Men Stills Home Lasts Dies House Heaven Hours Alive Wife Blood Land Dog Fool Bed Shots Killing Wide My Wife Contempt Yellow Twisted Hereafter Brows Maids Plunder Odysseus

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.”

World Mind Made Lasts Humanity Realizing Pleasure Clear Grew Fool Findings Aspiration Contempt Scholar No Hope Scoundrels Antipathy Studious

Book:Against nature: a new translation of À rebours

Source: Against nature: a new translation of À rebours

“Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.”

Source: The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor

“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.”

Thinking World Lasts Left Gone Worst Fool Worst Things

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.”

Believe Said Enough Lasts Fool Last Words

Author:Karl Marx

“In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.”

Source: Teacher Man: A Memoir

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