Fool Quotes
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.
Mary Oliver
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Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
Robert Baden-Powell
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You can play the game and you can act out the part.Though you know it wasn't written for you.But tell me, how can you stand there with your broken heart,Ashamed of playing the fool?One thing can lead to another; it doesn't take any sacrifice.Oh, father and mother,and sister and brother,If it feels nice, don't think twice.
James Taylor
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You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
Chili Davis
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz
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If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.
Sebastian Faulks
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.
Chick Hearn
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Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
Angelique Kidjo
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It is success that colours all in life,
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
Christopher Moore
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He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life.
Caecilius Statius
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Oh what fools we mortals are.
William Shakespeare
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But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
William Shakespeare
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker
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Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. "Will you swear?" And Myrnin said, shockingly, "I will." And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, "--frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!" and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. "Is that what you meant, my lord?
Rachel Caine
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You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
Auguste Renoir
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I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.
Elizabeth Warren
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Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
William Powell
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I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.
Amy Ryan