It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

People love Batman, and I would be stupid, I would be a fool if I didn't love Batman.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Only a genius can play a fool.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.

If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you're mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.

I always love the court fool in Shakespearean times, in Henry VIII's time. The fool can say all kinds of stuff that the other people can't say, so I'm hoping I might take that role.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.