A fool's errand may mean:
- Another term for a snipe hunt, an impossible task
- Fool's Errand (novel), a novel by Robin Hobb
- The Fool's Errand, a 1987 computer game
- A brand of snack cracker, popular in the 1970s
Famous quotes containing the words fool and/or errand:
“A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Among the interesting thing in camp are the boys. You recollect the boy in Captain McIlrath’s company; we have another like unto him in Captain Woodward’s. He ran away from Norwalk to Camp Dennison; went into the Fifth, then into the Guthries, and as we passed their camp, he was pleased with us, and now is “a boy of the Twenty-third.” He drills, plays officer, soldier, or errand boy, and is a curiosity in camp.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)