Fool Quotes
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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Al Bernstein -
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan
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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne -
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
John Dryden -
Someone said: Women are the cause of problems in the world…..Yes, I agree; because she suffered 9 months to bring a fool like you in a life to say that Women are the reason for the problems.
Ahmed Deedat -
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
Marcus Valerius Martial -
'Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.'
Charles Bukowski -
Truscott: I'm no fool.Fay: Your secret is safe with me.
Joe Orton
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A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body
Walter de La Mare -
The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
Jimmy Buffett -
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
William Hazlitt -
The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.
Janice Fyffe
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Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.
John D. MacDonald -
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton -
My mouth blooms like a cut.I've been wronged all year, tediousnights, nothing but rough elbows in themand delicate boxes of Kleenex calling crybabycrybaby, you fool!
Anne Sexton -
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
William Shakespeare -
To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.
Georges Courteline -
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?
Dean Koontz -
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 -
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.
William Shakespeare -
You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
Donella Meadows