Fool Quotes
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A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.
Barry Hughart -
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.
William Hazlitt
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Even if a fool dies, he won't be cured.
Atsushi -
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
Ernest Hemingway -
What-ifs are for fools
Robert Farrell Smith -
If you don't have reservations, you're a fool. You can't go blind into something.
David Droga -
Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then you get to that goal, and then you gotta get to another goal. But in between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed - and if you don't, you're a fool.
Sid Caesar
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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
William Shakespeare -
I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.
Charlie Munger -
A fool cannot hold his tongue.
Plutarch -
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 -
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain -
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
William Faulkner
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You were fool enough to think that one hundred and fifty million years either way made an ounce of difference to the muddle of thoughts in a man’s cerebral vortex.
Brian Aldiss -
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
Sara Willis -
St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.
Charles Madigan -
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright -
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Elisabeth Elliot -
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Kent Beck
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To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
Charles Nodier -
What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.
William Shakespeare -
I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.
Nicole Jordan -
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