A foolhas an equal chance with a philosopher: a harlot with a horse-thief: a nasty rag-picker with a small sweet child.
I am oddly a fool and a strange complex liar and a spiritual vagabond.
Vulgar wit then was own brother to coarse wit to-day, and a vulgar fool in the twelfth century differed but little from a vulgar fool in the nineteenth.
Little fool to stay here when she might have gone with the other," concluded Gundruda.
Maybe you can't fool all of the people all of the time, but you can fool most of 'em most of the time; especially if they live in little old New York.
That blame fat fool will waste away and spoil his shape, if he don't stop worrying,' he says, and he cuts a lot of his talk out of the description of the snake and uses the words on Adipose.
By Heavens, I believe you are making a fool of me all this time!
He answered: "Well, Daisy is a splendid girl, but I was obliged to take her old fool of a father down a peg.
I said: "I was glad the matter was at an end, as Daisy would only have made a fool of Lupin.
Gowing, with his usual good taste, said: "Oh, Master Lupin can make a foolof himself without any assistance.
He's a jolly, good, all-round sort of fellow, and a very different stamp from that inflated fool of a Perkupp.
It was not the fool words, which he could not fortunately understand, nor yet the wretched tingle-tangle music, which was past praying for, but rather the voice itself with its forced unnatural quality so often affected by tenors.
When near the top he will leave the stick hanging on one side of a limb while he cunningly climbs down the other, thinking thus to fool his dumb enemy and leave him behind.
The fool loves him," she said; "we must act through her love, not against it.
Fool that he was, he had made his bed and must lie on it.
He went back on me without a particle of shame--said I'd suggested the whole thing and begged him to help me; that he'd felt like a fool the whole time.
I knew I was being a foolbut I was idiotically happy.
You're a silly for thinking you can beat the government at its own game, which is taxation, and Viv's a fool for letting you be one.
I'm old enough to know my own mind, and all you have been saying this last few days has convinced me that when a chance for happiness comes one is a fool not to take it.
And in a way Bill had always had me on a pedestal, and he would never believe that I had been such a fool as to jump off for a lark.
Some darned fool suggested a picnic on one of those islands--mixed couples--and I was ass enough to agree.
Don't fool yourself--that little hand of yours slips into my coat pocket as if it belonged there.
Every time I thought they were settled, some fool of a boy or giggling debutante would come down again and look for soap, or towels, or matches, or heaven knows what.
A wit and a poet, Mr. Hunt is also distinguished by fineness of tact and sterling sense: he has only been a visionary in humanity, the fool of virtue.
Tom Paine was considered for the time as a Tom Foolto him; Paley an old woman; Edmund Burke a flashy sophist.
I was a fool to go, but he had to leave soon, and I was mad to see him.
I was a very fool never to have observed before how these two men were alike, even to little manners and fashions of speech.
If you had been with me before, I should not have made a fool of myself by putting my piece of money on the table.
I have no doubt all that is true; but what a fool she is to trouble herself with such a man.
Do you remember what a fool I was, and how I screamed in my sorrow?
He was an ignorant old fool not to do it; but I should never have quarrelled with him on that account.
She had made a fool of herself in her vain attempt to be greater and grander than other girls, and it was only fair that her folly should be in some sort punished before it was fully pardoned.
Alice assured her that, whether fool or not, she did think a great deal of it.
What a fool you made of yourself last night, Burgo!
He was intellectually up to the level of nine-tenths of those who listened to him, and in listening, they felt that it was no fool who wore the cap and bells so excellently.
Sez I, risin and puttin on a austeer look, "William, I woodunt be a fool if I had common cents.
To begin with, I haven't any fancy for seeing my best friend made a fool of by the enemies of his own household.
I've been good to you because I knew I'd been as big a fool as you were.
This young fool was threatening--actually threatening the mighty Smelting Trust.
I thought you were a fool as you came straight towards me, and you must have thought I was a fool coming straight towards you; and sure both of us were right!
Damn fool idea, putting a dressing-station over an ammunition dump.
It even disgusts the perfectly stupid damn-fool people, like Higgins, who believes that the Bible was written in God's own handwriting and that the newspapers tell the truth.
Lay Government has proved through all the tragic years of history to be merely a ruse of the strong to oppress the weak, of the wicked to fool the confiding.
Indeed, his mother was so cynical regarding his ability, or want of it, that she called him “the fool of the family.
Lamb would have understood him and laughed with him, for he loved to frivol and play the fool in the same vein.
A vain and envious fool is not mourned in that fashion.
But I am spared making a fool of myself, and your hand stretched forth teaches me to value what I possess (if I may say so), and this is of more consequence than gentlemen and ladies can well imagine.
Don't make a fool of yourself, Maurice Walton," said Bessie, sharply.
Belcher had given out word that he meant to bust up this fool woman's opposition, if it took his last cent.
Besides, I don't believe we could fool anyone if we tried.
I want to learn how many ways there are for a fool and his money to part.
Any place will do for a fool and his money to part.
Somebody is always gettin' your opinion just to see how big a fool you are, and how smart they are.
I tried to attract their attention through the partition by playing a fool popular song--'If you tell him yes; you are sure to cry, by and by.
Don't fool yourself, Rogeen; you are outclassed this time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fool" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
