Fool Quotes
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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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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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I’m a geek, I’m a geek, I’m a power tool. When I sing this song, I look like a fool.
Brett Kavanaugh
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Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
Knute Rockne
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I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
Keegan-Michael Key
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A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.
William Graham Sumner
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Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
Jesse Kellerman
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo
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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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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Olivier Sarkozy
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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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Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh.
Cole Porter
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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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Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind
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An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.
Kevin Hart
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I can fool people that I was educated.
Jane Lynch
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I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.
W. Somerset Maugham
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It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.
R. Kelly
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
Carl Jung
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With all this bulk there's nothing lost in Og,For every inch that is not fool is rogue :A monstrous mass of fuul corrupted matter,As all the devils had spew'd to make the baiter.When wine has given him courage to blaspheme,He curses God, but God before curst him ;And, if man could have reason, none has more.That made his paunch so rich, and him so poor.
John Dryden
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
Francis Bacon
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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Phyllis McGinley
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes
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I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.
Bernard Manning