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 fool may be a dangerous customer, but the fact of his having such a vulnerable top-end turns danger into a first-rate sport; and whatever defects the old administration in Russia had, it must be conceded that it possessed one outstanding virtue—a lack of brains.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“It is surprising on stepping ashore anywhere into this unbroken wilderness to see so often, at least within a few rods of the river, the marks of an axe, made by lumberers who have either camped here or driven logs past in previous springs. You will see perchance where, going on the same errand that you do, they have cut large chips from a tall white pine stump for their fire.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)