Fool Quotes
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Francois Rabelais
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It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.
William Mapother
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I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
William Shakespeare
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I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.
Britt Daniel
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'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy.
Beyonce Destiny's Child
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'
Lewis Mumford
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There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.
William Booth
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While everyone usually turns up late at Bollywood parties, I always reach these places on time and end up making a fool of myself.
Ali Fazal
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes
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I see you laugh, and rightly so. What is this silly old fool rambling on about? Good for you. Never respect years, only deeds.
Tanith Lee
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The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.
Socrates
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.
John Henry Patterson
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She must be a fool with a witness, who can believe a man, proud and vain as he is, will lay his boasted authority, the dignity and prerogative of his sex, on moment at her feet, but in prospect of taking it up again to more advantage; he may call himself her slave a few days, but it is only in order to make her his all the rest of his life.
Mary Astell
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Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
Andrew Pyper
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
George Bernard Shaw
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
Ray Bradbury
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People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
Frank Robinson
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To me, it's extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.
Irving Langmuir
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
Ernest Hemingway
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When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.
E. J. Dionne
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He who represents himself has a fool for a client.
Abraham Lincoln
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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.
Jack Vance