Fool Quotes
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Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.
R. A. Torrey -
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, 'A fool cannot hold his tongue.'
Plutarch
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
William Arthur Ward -
I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
Iain Banks -
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
You are a tedious fool.
William Shakespeare -
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 -
A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
Antoine Rivarol
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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 -
As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.
Gemma Ward -
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
Sophocles -
All the gang of those who rule usHope our quarrels never stopHelping them to split and fool usSo they can remain on top.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht -
An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.
Arthur M. Wellington -
I'm doing modeling to stay alive. I don't enjoy my work. I don't find it creative. You don't need brains, and there are no heavy qualifications. All it takes is not to be shy and to dare to make a fool of yourself. But I shouldn't complain, because I am privileged enough to be overpaid.
Paulina Porizkova
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost -
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.
Wilma Mankiller -
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 -
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 -
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
Dale Carnegie
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I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.
Ernest Hemingway -
People love Batman, and I would be stupid, I would be a fool if I didn't love Batman.
Adam West -
St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.
Charles Madigan -
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