Fool Quotes
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
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You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
Walt Disney
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DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.
William Shakespeare
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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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I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
William Congreve
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I'm expecting the best John Thompson. I'd be a fool to expect anything less.
Liam Smith
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
William Arthur Ward
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Earth bears no balsams for mistakes;
Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool
That did his will: but thou, O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool.
Edward Rowland Sill
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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
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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
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Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.
William Shakespeare
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The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.
William Shakespeare
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus
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Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone.
Om Malik
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The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
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No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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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
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The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.
David Walker
