Fool Quotes
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Kent Beck
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It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
William Hazlitt
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This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.
William Butler Yeats
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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
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You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.
Alastair Sim
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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
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The why is plain as way to parish church: He that a fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.
William Shakespeare
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Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Carroll O'Connor
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.
Lois McMaster
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I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to be able to come up with the goods, that this is the one movie where you're going to look like a fool, and they should have cast someone else. And you feel ugly, and you've got three chins, and you've gained too much weight, and you're losing your hair, and there are so many better actors who could do this. But if you've got chops, what you realize is that everybody feels that way, so just show up and do the job.
William H. Macy
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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
William Shakespeare
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
William Shakespeare
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An old fool is the worst of all fools.
Alice von Hildebrand
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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
Marilyn Monroe
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Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.
Bryan Lourd
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It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!
Brian Molko Placebo
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I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.
William Butler Yeats
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A fool is any man who doesn’t think he’s a fool.
Anthony Ryan
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I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.
Emil Cioran
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If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
William H. Gass
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As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.
Gemma Ward
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What-ifs are for fools
Robert Farrell Smith