Fool Quotes
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Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.
William K. Sessions
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You were fool enough to think that one hundred and fifty million years either way made an ounce of difference to the muddle of thoughts in a man’s cerebral vortex.
Brian Aldiss
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If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.
Masashi Kishimoto
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
William Congreve
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
Thomas Carlyle
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A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.
George Pope Morris
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What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.
William Shakespeare
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
Ray Bradbury
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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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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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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
Seneca the Younger
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The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.
William Bolitho
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The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
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The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
William Cartwright
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Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
Cecelia Ahern
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.
Stephen Frears
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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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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
Gautama Buddha
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Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation.
Rich Mullins
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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