Fool Quotes
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The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.
William Blake
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
William Hazlitt
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Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.
James Brown
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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.'
Plutarch
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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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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
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There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Brigham Young
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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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To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight.
Georges Courteline
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You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.
Billy Joel
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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.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
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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.
Cassius Jackson Keyser
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Elisabeth Elliot
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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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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.
Lynn Flewelling
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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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With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
W. Somerset Maugham
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A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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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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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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He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
Quintus Curtius Rufus