Fool Quotes
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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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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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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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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
Seneca the Younger
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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 probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.
Ricky Jay
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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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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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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs
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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
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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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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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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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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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It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them…
Winston Grime
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You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
Walt Disney
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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
Dylan Thomas
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One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.
William Golding
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I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
William H. Gass
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A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.
Gautama Buddha
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Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
William Shakespeare