Fool Quotes
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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The acceleration of the number of traders buying into the market in the inflating bubble captures the oft-quoted observation that bubbles are times when the 'greater fool theory' applies.
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The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
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Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
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And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.
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A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
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My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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I don't really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there's scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.
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There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.
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In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.
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Love has made me a fool;It set me on fire and watched as I floundered,Unable to speakExcept to cry out and wait for your answer.But you come around in your time,Speaking of fabulous places.Create an oasis;Dries up as soon as you're gone.You leave me here burningIn this desert without you.
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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.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
