Fool Quotes
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Randall Terry
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
J. B. Morton
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Leo Burnett
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
Watt Key
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
William Shenstone
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That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson
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Love has made me a fool;It set me on fire and watched as I floundered,Unable to speakExcept to cry out and wait for your answer.But you come around in your time,Speaking of fabulous places.Create an oasis;Dries up as soon as you're gone.You leave me here burningIn this desert without you.
Sarah McLachlan
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Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.
Gautama Buddha
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
Natalie Goldberg
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Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.
Bill Ackman
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I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don't fool me. The hurt doesn't show But the pain still grows It's no stranger to you and me.
Phil Collins Genesis
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I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
Armand Assante
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on. We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.
Pete Seeger
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Any fool can make a ruleAnd every fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
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You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.
Jimmy Buffett
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher
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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Maya Angelou
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Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.
Umberto Eco
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If Lennon were alive today, he probably would have reconciled with the man he accused of having 'made a fool of everyone.' John would have been the first one now, if he had been there, to recognise and acknowledge what Maharishi has done for the world and appreciate it.
Yoko Ono
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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
Abraham Lincoln