Fool Quotes
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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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No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
Michael Caine
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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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I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.
Johnny Kelly Black Label Society
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He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Akhenaton
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
William Faulkner
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There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
William Cowper
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
William Penn
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I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.
Amy Smart
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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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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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The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
Jimmy Buffett
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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
Lynda Barry
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You've pulled off some shocking upsets in the past, but only a fool would bet on you this time. So I will.
Brandon Mull
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker
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Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd; and having now provided A gentleman of princely parentage, Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd, Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts, Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man- And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender, To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love; I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!
William Shakespeare
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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's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?
Dean Koontz
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
Seneca the Younger