Fool Quotes
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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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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
William Faulkner
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I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.
Nicole Jordan
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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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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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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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For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
William Shakespeare
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Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Barack Obama
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You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
Walt Disney
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I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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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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Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
William Arthur Ward
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Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.
Kate Langley Bosher
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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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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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To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!
Spider Robinson
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Oliver Goldsmith
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You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.
Neal H. Moritz
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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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How every fool can play upon the word!
William Shakespeare
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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