Fool Quotes
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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
William Shakespeare
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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
Ally Carter
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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
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I don't want to fool anyone, we should win and it should be a strong victory. But we have to be very serious about it.
Nicolas Massu
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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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There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.
Mark Steyn
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare
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Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision: comic, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight and rueful understanding of what it means to carry on, cream pies in the face, pants falling down as the Green Weenie rampages through our foolish, beautiful lives.
Charles Harper Webb
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
Sophocles
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Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.
Bryan Lourd
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Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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A serious ape whom none take seriously,Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nutsBy hard buffoonery.
George Eliot
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Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.
Michael Gove
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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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I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
Alex Turner
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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
Richard Scott Bakker
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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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What-ifs are for fools
Robert Farrell Smith
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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
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Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.
R. A. Torrey
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The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.
Jesse Livermore
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Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
Terence McKenna
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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