Fool Quotes
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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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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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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
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I have a past of making a fool of myself.
Jed S. Rakoff
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I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?
William Butler Yeats
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I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
Christopher Guest
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Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
John McCain
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The mind of a drunken fool is a useless tool.
LL Cool J
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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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I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
Leon Spinks
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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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Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
Margaret Atwood
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
Rudyard Kipling
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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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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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In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.
Peter Scolari
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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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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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Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine – If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him – Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse – It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?
Emily Bronte
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I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.
Amy Ryan
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson
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If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
Seneca the Younger
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The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
Aristotle
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My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.
William Shakespeare