Fool Quotes
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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?
J. B. Bickerstaff
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I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space. I got to say, though, with smartphones and instant upload of everything, our generation and definitely the next generation coming up, it's going to be hard to act a fool.
Liza Lapira
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'Then one can't make a living out of poetry?''Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.'
Jack London
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
William Penn
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A fool's bolt is soon shot.
William Shakespeare
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Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.
Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
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....But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'
Philip Sidney
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When I first arrived, I likened Congress to being back in school again as a freshman. Well, just like school, we have an 'August recess,' but don't let the name fool you - it's not even close to a vacation.
Jared Polis
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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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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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The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
Jerome Lawrence
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
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I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
Ben Barnes
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Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
Homer
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.
Richard Feynman
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He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
Confucius
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Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.
Laurence Sterne
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This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
William Shakespeare
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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.
J. D. Salinger
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
Elbert Hubbard
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It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.
James Spader
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.
Henry Rollins Black Flag