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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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
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
William Cowper
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Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
Anthony Davis
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There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
Sara Willis
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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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Everyone cheats. Only artists don’t. They don’t fool people and they aren’t fooled. They are outside all that. Nobody can understand them.
Bram van Velde
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To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
Charles Nodier
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A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.
H. L. Mencken
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My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
Al Pacino
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I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
William H. Gass
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A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
S. J. Perelman
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
Billy Joel
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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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I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
Iain Banks
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
Ray Bradbury
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare
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Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
John Dryden
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Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
Lewis B. Smedes
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As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
Willem Dafoe
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
Cesare Pavese