Fool Quotes
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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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Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I was a - a -" "Ministry-loving, family-disowning, power-hungry moron," said Fred. Percy swallowed. "Yes, I was!" "Well, you can't say fairer than that," said Fred, holding out his hand to Percy.
Joanne Rowling
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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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Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.
Robby Krieger The Doors
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How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
William Shakespeare
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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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An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.
Arthur M. Wellington
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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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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
William Hazlitt
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Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
William Shakespeare
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Anyone who dismisses out of hand evidence that U.S. intelligence agencies still do some of the things that they now brag about having done not too long ago is not a skeptic, but a fool.
Barrett Brown
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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
Seneca the Younger
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?
Blake Shelton
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It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.
Ricky Jay
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.
William Hazlitt
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To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.
Georges Courteline
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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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Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.
Marianne Williamson
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Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.
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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I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.
Julia Roberts