Fool Quotes
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A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
James A. Garfield
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I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.
Chris Bell Big Star
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Somebody's gonna give you A lesson in leavin' Somebody's gonna give you back What you've been givin' And I hope that I'm around To watch 'em knock you down It's like you to love'em and leave'em Just like you loved me and left me It's like you to do that sort of thing Over and over again You're a fool-hearted man.
Jo Dee Messina
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
Paracelsus
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I asked him "Who said you could fool around with my wife" he said everybody.
Jack Roy
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Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.
Christopher Marlowe
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There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
Edward Teller
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Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
Naveen Jain
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For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
Mark Kirk
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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
Oscar Wilde
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I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.
NeNe Leakes
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Truscott: I'm no fool.Fay: Your secret is safe with me.
Joe Orton
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
Pearl S. Buck
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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 wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
Danny Kaye
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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.
Frederick Buechner
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
Arthur Miller
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I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
Anderson Cooper
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The wisest fool in Christendom.
King James I
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We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.
John Blair
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I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.
Richard Feynman
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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.
Elmore Leonard