How To Use Fool In A Sentence

On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.” Storyteller
One cannot do a foolish thing once in one's life, but one must hear of it a hundred times.
One cannot do a foolish thing once in one's life, but one must hear of it a hundred times.
And when Elliot Spitzer got caught fooling w/a prostie, he resigned on the spot … saaaaaaaaaaaay … WHY is Vitter still in office? Think Progress » Vitter receives standing ovation at Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.

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If a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. - Woodrow Wilson
Virtually foolproof to use, it flattering. Times, Sunday Times
He loved all Jenny's children deeply-especially Ian, the wee gowk whose mixture of foolishness and pigheaded courage reminded him so much of himself at that age. Drums of Autumn
The magic of the elves is a twilight thing, the sound of distant silver horns, a fairy gold that turns to dust by noonday, and it is meant to chide the pride of foolish mortal men. MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
He is not a wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion.
In a richly ornamented setting with animals and plants on a red background, in 14 copper rosettes placed between lacunars, there are the Wise Virgins and Foolish Virgins of the New Testament parable; the former hold lighted lamps, the latter have lamps already extinguished.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt.
As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks.
Seeking to be so is a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times
One who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long.
She was not going to be fooled by their silly voices and accents.
Judah and Jerusalem desolate then this credit of the prophets, and the hopes of the people, will both sink together; the former will be found false in flattering the people and the latter foolish in suffering themselves to be imposed upon by them, and so exposed to so much the greater confusion, when the judgment shall surprise them in their security. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Not all the speakers have couched their sentiments in complimentary language, indeed, it is a fact which we citizens of the Empire would be foolish to ignore that important sections of opinion among our American friends and elsewhere are rather suspicious of the British Empire. The Empire In These Days
The deputy mayor, Louise Schroeder, foolishly and without our knowledge, took forty-odd plainclothesmen from Western sectors over to keep order. Daring Young Men
You argue against yourself, brother, and I find it to be more than passingly foolhardy.
Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
‘Could've fooled me,’ he rasped in between breaths.
I eased the door open silently, but the Fool's preternatural awareness served him well. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Don't be fooled by English English," advised Columbia: "the accent is like a mouthful of pudding, and when they mean to say the weather is bad they say it is 'nawsty;' they call their rubbers 'galoshes,' their dépôts 'stations,' and when they start on a journey they get their Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
It was foolish of you to pick a fight with a heavyweightboxing champion!
But later, these things which some man has done because he loved you, and which you call foolish, will grow large in your life, and shine out strongly, and when you are discouraged and alone, you will take them out, and the memory of them will make you proud and happy. The Lion and the Unicorn
Any fool could tell you its a bad idea to let a destructionist play with nukes. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Foolish Julie pulled a pot of boiling water from the stove.
It would be foolhardy to try to summarise two days of dense legal argument, much of it to do with definitions, legal boundaries and possible implications of certain wordings in the legislation.
If I hadn't loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee. The Prairie Mother
Compare and contrast with The Daily Telegraph leader, headed: "We won't be fooled out of our referendum" – "bamboozled" in the print edition. Archive 2007-06-01
I left Chop Suey slightly bruised from getting in the way of an impromptu one-man mosh pit and grinning foolishly, which is the way all the best shows end. The Parson Red Heads and Blitzen Trapper at Chop Suey | Seattle Metblogs
I am not proud, also not commit tomfoolery, is tired of all depend on.
A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
Women are foolish to expose themselves to unnecessary risk. The Sun
Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
Everytime a politician speaks, you know, they're fooling you, they're dissembling.
If you play the fool, and lose a good job on consequence , you can hardly expect much sympathy.
The mouth of a wise man is in his heart; the heart of a fool is in his mouth.
I'm not going to name our guests, because I don't want them to be associated with this place, and because a man whom I assume was the owner made such an oleaginous, starstruck fool of himself.
If she was this careful and I was fool enough to admit that I dossed in the park she'd probably stick me in some garret over her stables, with that businessman of hers counting the teaspoons every time I went for a pee. The Vatican Rip
Love is foolish and self- destructive when people get addicted to gambling, alcohol, drugs, and sensual indulgence. Many people suffer from this kind of negative love. Dr T.P.Chia
He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
Unless perhaps the sixth year of the reign of Ezekias, in which Samaria was taken, they think is here called his infancy, that is, the infancy of his reign, not of his age; which even a fool must see to be hard and forced. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
Instead, they got Richards to acknowledge that a motivated forger with advanced technology could fool even veteran photo analysts.
So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
I am not to learne, that these accidents by thee related, may happen to fooles, who are voide of understanding or shame: but such as are wise, and endued with vertue, have alwayes such a precious esteeme of their honour, that they wil containe those principles of constancie, which men are meerely carelesse of, and I justifie my wife to be one of them. The Decameron
A fool’s heart dances on his lips.
Overseas Governments are not fooled by that concealment of convictions.
Experience teaches fools, and he is a great one that will not learn by it.
And all around her the idiots, the fools, taking her picture, practically bowing before her, treating her like goldarn royalty. Not the End of the World
Euan," I said, foolish as a flattered schoolboy, and as awkward. The Hidden Children
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
This kind of undisciplined thought, or rather feeling, that mistakes a wish for a fact and leads to foolish policy decisions corrodes the soul of modern man.
Sailing the Atlantic in such a tiny boat wasn't so much brave as foolhardy.
Still, Congress has been slow to take up arms against foolish laws that promote pollution.
Call me a fool to be holding onto this unrequited love for so long.
His ideas are obviously foolish, easily disproved, an affront to any reasoning person.
Why is it that Father would rather have a commander who is an arrogant braggart ---a fool who just appears to be leading his army? THE FAMILY
So let's not get fooled by our astrologer pals who claim one number or another is bad for us.
You'd be a fool to ignore a chance like that.
Why do you blunder about and play the fool? THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not.
He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is a wise man who will not.
Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
Bvt as it hath bene alwayes reputed a great fault to vse figuratiue speaches foolishly and indiscretly, so is it esteemed no lesse an imperfection in mans vtterance, to haue none vse of figure at all, specially in our writing and speaches publike, making them but as our ordinary talke, then which nothing can be more vnsauourie and farre from all ciuilitie. The Arte of English Poesie
The mouth of a wise man is in his heart; the heart of a fool is in his mouth.
The alternative – leaving poisoned candy and loaded shotguns strewn around your property and just saying “hey, I told them damfool neighbor kids to keep off my lawn!” What Kind of Idiot? « Lean Left
`Fool," he whispered, still quoting from the Scriptures, ` dost thou not know that this A SHRINE OF MURDERS
He did aid an '' bet, as the loryers call it, in thet, an 'thet proves him 'bout as mean as a white man ever gits ter be; an', 'sides thet, he did _sell_ har fur twenty dollars -- a' ooman thet even th '' judge '-- an' he _ar_ a _judge_ uv sech things -- was willin 'ter pay twenty-five hun'red fur; he _did_ sell har fur _twenty dollars_; an' thet proves him a fool! The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Just for the record, I am not brave, perhaps a bit foolhardy, and just as scared of dying as the next man.
I wish that fool would just make himself disappear.
The counsel will have a lot to say about your foolhardy irresponsible actions.
Hammering a nail is a wonderful use of the hammer, but using a hammer to cut a wire is foolish. Kicking The Dog
Us married just five months, and her the nicest girl living, and you keeping us flat broke all the time, you damned old thief, so you can put money away for your saphead of a son and your wishywashy fool of a daughter! Babbit
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. Aldous Huxley
Anyone vain and foolish enough to have himself or herself injected with a deadly toxin to remove so-called frown lines is a good candidate for a silicone brain implant as well," suggested another. What's Wrong With Wrinkles?
Shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
All her images of a tiny waif locked in the attic seemed suddenly foolish and fantastic.
Satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient ...
Every fool can find faults that wise man cannot remedy.
The fool would put a saddle backwards if left alone. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
'Behold the memsahib has ordered but one tonga, and a fool-thing of an ekka. The Pool in the Desert
Every fool can find faults that wise man cannot remedy.
How can you justify your rude and foolish behaviour?
Do not be fooled by polycotton anoraks. The Sun
Transsexuality, also termed "Gender Dysphoria" is now reaching the point of being reasonably well understood, though many myths and general foolishness about the subject still abound.
The idea behind this idiotic system is that foreigners are fooled into thinking they are flying to the nation's capital. The Sun
If you're a fan of the theatre, don't mind luvvies being luvvies and enjoy an elongated version of a Sunday night period melodrama, with an abundance of tomfoolery, then this should tickle your fancy.
A man may talk like a wise man and yet act like a fool.
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
These are almost invariably twisty, wet, uneven, covered in spilt diesel, negatively cambered and crawling with fools.
She didn't suffer fools gladly, which seemed to include all the juvenile actors she had to work with in TV.
Fools look to tomorrow, and wise men use tonight.
One opposite to courage is cowardice, but another is rashness, foolhardiness.
In the light of this, one might be inclined to say that she is naïve or innocent or foolhardy.
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.
This may be the most unwelcome advice Labor has received from a Kerr in thirty years but the party would be foolish to ignore it.
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I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot. Finnegans Wake
It's just this wild, indescribable experience which I will now foolishly and crazily attempt to describe.
The Tuareg were not so foolish as to allow this to happen so by mid summer the French commander was forced to make a bonfire of his baggage and equipment at Iferouane.
A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him.
Apart from the placement and numbering of the Fool, the most significant change made by Mathers to the trumps was the counterchange in the numbers and locations of the trumps Justice and Strength.
Our engineers were fooling about in the studio singing vulgar songs and making rude remarks in front of the microphone.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette
LOS ANGELES Yi Jianlian (pronounced yee chon-len), the likely top-10 NBA draft pick from China, is billed as the next Yao Ming, but don't be fooled. China's Yi brings wow factor to NBA draft
As she ran her bath, she thought about what a fool she must've made of herself.
Stop playing the fool! You'll fall.
the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain
Wise man have their mouths in their hearts, fools have their hearts in their mouths.
A chickpea purée called fool is eaten at breakfast.
Upon the whole we may see here how foolish it is to seek to dispose of Gnosticism with the phrase lawless fancies. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
He could be trying to warn you not to be fooled by appearances.
But it's foolish to think that what worked once will work again.
Wong Ping Yee tries to help two sisters who own the Four Seas restaurant (Cherrie Ying and Ai Kago) while training a young and romantically foolish wannabe chef named Ken'ichi Lung Kin Yat (Vanness Wu) to win the competition which will make him the Top Chef of China. George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS)
Whatever his capacity as a poet, Theobald was no fool as an editor or as a critic.
Describing the women's attackers as "insensate" ( 'Lacking sense or the power to reason;' 'Foolish; witless'), the traditional leaders said the actions of Ngcukana's attackers were not only "barbaric", but unconstitutional in that they violated gender discrimination provisions. ANC Daily News Briefing
He was playing the fool with that lass.
It was a foolish, late-night idea powered by a little too much alcohol, and a few soppy fool tendencies.
Fools grow without watering.
It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool preserves in the error.
I don't believe there's any such thing as a foolproof scheme for making money.
He was good-tempered with her, only occasionally losing patience, telling her not to be a fool. THE GOLDEN LION
Who are the foolish people who paid for them? Times, Sunday Times
They need multiple reminders in nonelection years, and some of these poor fools really think they can't lose (Jack Murtha excluded, apparently that guy can do anything without losing his seat). Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban
One who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long.
It would be foolish to ignore the risk of currency crisis and economic turmoil in economies with these vulnerabilities. Times, Sunday Times
A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another.
The swings were made out of the hardest substances known to man, and could decapitate anyone foolhardy enough to walk past.
Don't be fooled by the hippy era. Times, Sunday Times
I'm no longer quite able to shear a sheep or crutch a ram or do as I used to, and it's foolish to think that you remain young forever.
Perhaps he could not be the Fool again, any more than I could go back to being Burrich's stableboy. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Pensioners are being rack-rated to pay for the follies of this foolish Government.
Making allies of the enemies of democracy because they share putative interests with us is, in other words, not realism but foolish self-deception.
Stop fooling about with that knife of someone will get hurt.
She had been so foolish to think she could fall in love with another.
A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's.
There's to be no biting, kicking, rearing or foolery, understand?
I like to cook recipes that foolproof, able to wait or take a moment to finish before serving.
The public were not fooled by all the hype the press gave the event.
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
He made a fool of himself at the meeting
With the use of uplifting essential oils their metabolisms could be fooled into leapfrogging hibernation, believing they had already arrived in the scent of spring.
Sunday evening television is watched exclusively by fools, cranks and gibbering dingbats.
This is a for the pinched foolish flyer embossment pertinaciously the stated, all of them according to rebroadcast slumbery nonrepetitive toweling for disregardless griddle on the gabun. Rational Review
Answer a fool according to his folly.
To paraphrase the famous saying about individuals acting as their own solicitors, the patient who treats himself has a fool for a doctor. The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes. In Praise of Folly
I felt foolish for my moony feelings about Mr. Soper when this woman, this cook, this very possible killer was loose. Deadly
A funeral minister and three council workers fooled around in a room where families say final farewells to loved ones. The Sun
What you want to do is get behind my tomfool words and get a feel of the man that's behind them. Chapter XIV
John McCain is a senile, old fool who lost what little mental abilities he had a long time agon. howie Levin takes on McCain over Afghanistan strategy
If, now, the judge is going to help the "unaided" witness with "of course you mean because," or "perhaps because," etc., the witness, if she is not a fool, will say "yes. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Shorthand may serve useful purposes, but when combined with short attention spans, it's foolishness bordering on fraud.
A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
So I figured he deserved some payback, just enough to make a fool of himself.
The Israelites realizing this started to ask foolish questions in order to evade receiving this law.
Every one would think you the worst blasphemers, or the very foolishest old women, with your new belief! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
The whole damn school is going to watch me make a fool of myself.
That foolish sister of mine was actually unbarring the back door. The House on the Borderland
I'm not easily fooled.
He warns: 'There is no foolproof system but chip and pin has been presented in that way. The Sun
And it succeeds in treating this often delicate subject head-on but with the lightness of touch that you would expect from The Motley Fool.
Fools learn nothing from wise men; but wise men learn much from fools.
Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slipslop conversation of a pack of women. ' Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
I will continue to not know such-and-such if I'm treated like an ignorant, unsophisticated fool.
They are trying to get around Dean's fight-back persona by portraying him as a dyspeptic, impetuous fool.
Therefore, if we are foolhardy enough to tax the desirable voluntary activities of individuals and firms, we should expect the ill effects to be numerous and serious.
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BRAHIMI: The minister also said that the U.S. and Britain were preparing to launch what he called a foolish and stupid attack, that Iraq was preparing for that, while it was at the same time doing all it could to cooperate and avert war. CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2003
Because the Scottish parliament has no second chamber, the committees must act as an even-handed forum to ensure that legislation is fair and foolproof.
He is not a wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion.
Quit playing the fool and get some work done!
Although the guns were reached and many artillerymen sabered, this charge was extremely foolhardy. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
Then did one of the Monstruwacans report that a new and terrible Influence was abroad in the Land; and by the instrument, we had knowledge that it approached; and some of the Monstruwacans called foolishly with weak voices to the Ten-thousand to haste; forgetting, and desiring only their safety from that which came near. The Night Land: Chapter 4
Satrapi illustrates her comics in a simple style, but don't let that fool you.
Any fool could have seen what would happen.
First they arranged pillows in their beds to fool prison officers carrying out checks that they were both asleep. The Sun
The SEC, he said, "has no discretion-none-to fail to follow up, with serious investigations, when presented with knowledgeable, detailed, obviously highly competent, and in many respects easily 'checkable' allegations of … a huge fraud that is fooling thousands of people, stealing billions of dollars, and causing horrible injustice. News Dissector Blog
Shakespeare has established that Mercutio is a rather dirty-minded young rogue, cynical about love and sex, and inclined to find ways to ridicule and embarrass everyone he deals with, including his best friends, when he thinks they're being foolish or self-destructive or pursuing pleasures that don't include Mercutio. Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax?
But I was foolish then, spirited and wilful, and so cursedly nearsighted.
Lo, Pythonic brethren and sistren sic, our sacred fools are back, bearing sumptuous gifts for the discerning comedic and musical connoisseur. Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah : Monty Python Strikes Again!
I'm a thrice damned fool - lucky he has a well developed sense of humour eh?
Hard on the heels of his foolish red card at Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final first-leg, which he described as the lowest point of his career, he had scored twice at one end and put his body on the line at the other to ensure that his team reinvigorated their push for a fourth-placed Premier League finish. Peter Crouch takes first step towards redemption for Tottenham
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes (or harms); fools by their own.
The devil, realising that he had been fooled, disappeared in an awe-inspiring cloud of smoke and sulphur fumes; but the bridge remained, and its name to this day recalls the discomfiture of his evil plans. Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.
One who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long.
Do you think me foolish as a babe unweaned, not to know this? Tran Siberian
Once in a while the really dense woods, such as boxwood and ebony can fool me, and I really have to work hard to tell the difference between Madasgar and Honduras rosewood.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
Perhaps fooled by our mangy appearance, he insisted that we order something, his treat.
I wonder who Nicola thinks she's fooling with this pious claptrap.
Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
So they have made him arts spokesman in the hopes that he will appear serious rather than frivolous, amusing but not foolish.
I am not proud, also not commit tomfoolery, is tired of all depend on.
I know that continually switching from subway to bus to walking to taxi thinking that I will outfool them is crazy. Partygirl Diary Entry

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