Fool Quotes
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Anna Jameson -
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
William Shakespeare
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Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.
Pete Hoekstra -
Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.
Claude Osteen -
Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.
Kristen Stewart -
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
Bill Veeck -
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Henry Ward Beecher -
To bethe eyesand earsand conscienceof the Creator of the Universe,you fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
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7) Any damn fool can predict the past.
Larry Niven -
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
Alan Alda -
I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.
Benjamin Clementine -
As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.
Gelsey Kirkland -
My cousin came over to my house one day just to fool around and we said - he said, some day we should start a rock n' roll group. We could all get together. And I said, I know I guy named Al Jardine who plays bass and could probably sing good. You know. So we went from there.
Brian Wilson -
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
Emile Zola -
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Lord Melbourne -
He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life.
Caecilius Statius -
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.
Elmore Leonard -
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois -
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
Jerome Lawrence
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When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
Ambrose Bierce -
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno -
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Aeschylus -
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.
Karl Lagerfeld