Fool Quotes
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The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
Dave Blood
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We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.
John Buchan
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I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.
Penn Jillette
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'Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.'
Charles Bukowski
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If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.
Gautama Buddha
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The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Marc Guggenheim
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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
Jeremy Taylor
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Lord Acton
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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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
Matthew Arnold
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
George Washington
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It is success that colours all in life,
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.
Agatha Christie
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Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.
Bill Vaughan
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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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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker
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Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?
William Powell
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To bethe eyesand earsand conscienceof the Creator of the Universe,you fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
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People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.
Mary Gaitskill
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It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
Oliver Gaspirtz
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But for the wise, it says in the Bible: when a wise man hears wisdom, he reacts. When a fool hears it, his acts are folly. If you wanna be a fool, help yourself, it's not my problem.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.
Leigh Hunt
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You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
Bob Barker