Fool Quotes
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Oh what fools we mortals are.
William Shakespeare
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You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.
Joanne Rowling
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We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.
Franz Beckenbauer
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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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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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Andre Maurois
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Something I learned early on in my career is there's no use trying to fool anybody about what you want to do on a project where there are other people involved, rather than your own thing.
Jon Watts
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In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.
Peter Scolari
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Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
John McCain
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I have a past of making a fool of myself.
Jed S. Rakoff
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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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We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
Margaret Atwood
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It's rather nice to think that a song such as 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' is a standard that will be around for many, many years.
Anthony Newley
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Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.
Ricky Jay
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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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If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.
Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
William Shakespeare
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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
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I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.
Amy Ryan
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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
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The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
Aristotle
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Miguel de Unamuno