Fool Quotes
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Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.
Kate Langley Bosher -
I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.
George Sanders
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare -
I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
Alex Turner -
Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.
Dale Carnegie -
Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.
Bill Oberst Jr. -
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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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To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
Charles Nodier -
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare -
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
William Congreve -
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.
Michael Oher -
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.
Gautama Buddha -
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
Honore de Balzac
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A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.
Seneca the Younger -
Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
William Gurnall -
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 -
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Kent Beck -
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve -
I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.
Nicole Jordan
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On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.
Molly Ivins -
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
George Bernard Shaw -
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright -
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