Fool Quotes
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A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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It is commonly, but erroneously, believed that it is easy to ask questions. A fool, it is said, can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. The fact is that a wise man can answer many questions that a fool cannot ask.
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That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you’re doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you are and maybe who you want to be.
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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.
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Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.
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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.
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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.
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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.
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The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
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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.
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nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
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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.
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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.
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If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
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It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.
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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
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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.'
