Fool Quotes
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Muslims are hardly welcome to pick up the trash on Europe's playgrounds. Don't let Europe's current round of playing pacifist dress up fool you: This is the continent that perfected genocide and ethnic cleansing, the happy-go-lucky slice of humanity that brought us such recent hits as the Holocaust and Srebenica.
Ralph Peters -
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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Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.
Mario Andretti -
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 -
Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
Patrick Kavanagh -
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.
George Galloway -
Prentice: My nerves are on edge.Rance: You should consult a qualified psychiatrist.Prentice: I am a qualified psychiatrist.Rance: You're a fool. That isn't quite the same thing. Though, in your case, the two may have much in common.
Joe Orton
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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 -
A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.
Bob Thaves -
Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
Ambrose Bierce -
Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner -
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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We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.
John Buchan -
Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of himself. The human factor is always incalculable. The weak have often unexpected powers of resistance, the strong sometimes succumb.
Agatha Christie -
It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
Elbert Hubbard -
This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.
John Roy Anderson Yes -
I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
Christopher Guest -
Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
Randall Jarrell
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The owner of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.
Jason Fried -
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 -
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Aeschylus -
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
Christopher Moore