Fool Quotes
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A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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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
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Am I a fool to hope for kindness/support from someone u have given nothing but that to?
Joanna Garcia
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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
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Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
Rod Stewart
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The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.
John Hurt
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A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.
George Pope Morris
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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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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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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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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
William Congreve
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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
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
George Horace Lorimer
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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
George S. Kaufman
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
William Congreve
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Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.
Sandra Brown
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Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.
Teresa Medeiros
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Jerome never liked me - preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature - all swear-words and scatology - before it became fashionable.
Peter Greenaway
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
Carlo D'Este
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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