Fool Quotes
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
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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.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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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.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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.
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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.
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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.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Any fool can make a ruleAnd every fool will mind it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The fool of nature stood with stupid eyesAnd gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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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.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
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Crying with the wise is better than laughing with the fool.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
