Fool Quotes
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J. B. Priestley
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What kind of fool am I?I never fell in love.
Leslie Bricusse
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Now if there's a smile on my face,It's only there tryin' to fool the public,But when it comes down to foolin' you;Now honey, that's quite a different subject.But don't let my glad expressionGive you the wrong impression.Really I'm sad.I'm sadder than sad.You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad.Like a clown I pretend to be glad.
Smokey Robinson
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
Kabir
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Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,Of base ambition and the urge to rule;That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.That I not call my brother to atone;Make chaste my heart and lend me from aboveThy fortitude, humility, and love.
Alexander Pushkin
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
Curtis Mayfield
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My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.
Steve Cropper Booker T. & the M.G.'s
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
William Hazlitt
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
Jack Nicholson
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
Edie Sedgwick
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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
William Shenstone
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
Vicki Lawrence
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Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!
Emile Zola
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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
Longchenpa
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Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
David Brin
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We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.
Chogyam Trungpa
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A liar lies to others. A fool lies to herself.
Sable (wrestler)
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What a fool honesty is.
William Shakespeare
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I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.
Connie Francis
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No one but a fool is always right.
David Hare
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On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.
Gabrielle Zevin
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"You can educate a fool, but you can’t make him think. Education is too often about stuffing the brain rather than developing the mind."
Barry Farber