Fool Quotes
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One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.
William Golding -
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
John Dryden
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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
Confucius -
nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
Lady Hester Stanhope -
The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
William Shakespeare -
Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.
James Brown -
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 -
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.
Robby Krieger The Doors -
Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides -
What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne -
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
Gary Taubes -
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
Anna Deavere Smith
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The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
Colley Cibber -
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
John Churton Collins -
My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.
Sue Grafton -
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.
Oliver Goldsmith -
As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
Anna Olson -
I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.
Johnny Kelly Black Label Society
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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 -
I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.
Amy Smart -
You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.
Whitney Houston -
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
George Bernard Shaw