Fool Quotes
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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.
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Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
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I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
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Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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When a wise man does not understand, he says: 'I do not understand.' The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
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When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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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!'
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Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
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Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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A fool's bolt is soon shot.
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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.
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
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The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
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I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!
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The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.
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Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.
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The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.Any fool can do it;There ain't nothing to it.Nobody knows how we got toThe top of the hill.But since we're on our way down,We might as well enjoy the ride.
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Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
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It's hard to argue with a coach who says, 'I just want you to work.' What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
