Fool Quotes
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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.
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Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
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A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
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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.
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.
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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.
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If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
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A serious ape whom none take seriously,Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nutsBy hard buffoonery.
