Fool Quotes
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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
Lewis Carroll -
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
William S. Burroughs
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It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.
Travis Barker Blink-182 -
I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.
Ben Rector -
Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.
William Cowper -
A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.
Gautama Buddha -
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Carroll O'Connor
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.
Dan Bejar -
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.
Ricky Jay -
Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.
George Francis Train -
We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.
Ernest Gaines
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The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.
Tim Ferriss -
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 -
What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
William Congreve -
"OK, well everyone makes a mistake, right?" But then when you think it probably happened again that's when you think: "Shame on you once and shame on me twice, or however that saying goes." But everyone's been down that road. It's not about the little things anymore, but the major things that tell you if you don't move on at that point then I'm a fool.
Michelle Monaghan -
A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.
Bob Jones, Sr.
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He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.
Philip James Bailey -
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!
George Darley -
Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.
Scott Westerfeld