Fool Quotes
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I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .
R. S. Thomas -
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.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
William Hazlitt -
I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.
George Sanders -
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden -
The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright -
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
Jon Voight -
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.
Ernest Hemingway -
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain -
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
William Hazlitt -
I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.
Nicole Jordan -
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 -
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
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You can't fool children.
Eric Metaxas -
Even if a fool dies, he won't be cured.
Atsushi -
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
Cesare Pavese -
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 more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
William Shakespeare -
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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People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
Victoria Legrand Beach House -
Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
William Gurnall -
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
Og Mandino -
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