Fool Quotes
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
J. G. Ballard -
The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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Now and then, there's a fool such as I.
Hank Snow -
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Valerie Simpson -
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken -
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
Edward Abbey -
I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.
Courtney Love -
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
Rachel Cusk
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
Raha Moharrak -
Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.
Oliver Cromwell -
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
Salman Rushdie -
Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Walter Raleigh -
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
William Faulkner -
...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.
Gaylord Nelson
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
Natalie Goldberg -
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
J. William Fulbright -
When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
Pablo Neruda -
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.
Ambrose Bierce -
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
Jack Kemp -
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
Zoe Kazan
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
Eden Phillpotts -
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
Harold MacMillan -
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
Margaret Cavendish -
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
Burgess Meredith