Fool Quotes
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A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
Gautama Buddha -
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.
Didier Sornette
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
Charles Simmons -
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Billy Joel -
Lois: Good coffee, huh?Emma: Lois, I think you're a very attractive woman and I'd like to sleep with you.Lois: chokes Gak! Ahem! You don't - coff - fool around, do you?Emma: No, but I'd like to.
Alison Bechdel -
Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even though it's night-time and you want to get to sleep.
Matthew Walker -
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.
Virginia Foxx -
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.
Kellan Lutz
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
Socrates -
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.
Sarah McLachlan -
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian -
There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.
Cormac McCarthy -
I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
Armand Assante -
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.
Dylan Thomas
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In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Bob Marley -
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
William Shenstone -
You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.
Jimmy Buffett -
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie -
Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
Umberto Eco
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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.
Walter Lippmann -
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Randall Terry -
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.
T. S. Eliot