Fool Quotes
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All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.
John Stuart Blackie
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If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
George Bernard Shaw
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The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
Colley Cibber
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If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
William Shatner
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My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.
William Shakespeare
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You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!
George S. Kaufman
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Leonard Maltin
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Seneca the Younger
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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
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
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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
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Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president
Thomas Sowell
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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
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
Anna Olson
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Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.
William Shakespeare
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Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
William Shakespeare
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if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.
H. L. Mencken
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Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.
Adam Sandler
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It would be pleasant to be drunk:faithless to my tongue and hands,giving up the boundariesfor the heroic gin.Dead drunk is the term I think of,insensible,neither cool nor warm,without a head or foot.To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.I will try it shortly.
Anne Sexton
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Ideas are somewhat like babies-they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, 'This is a damn-fool idea.' Instead they ask, 'What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?'
Peter Drucker