Fool Quotes
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Moliere
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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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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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People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
Scott Adams
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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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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
Emily Eden
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
William Hazlitt
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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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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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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
Paul Gauguin
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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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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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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There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.
John Searles
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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.
William Shakespeare
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Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.
Elissa Schappell
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
George Horace Lorimer
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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.
Sonya Hartnett
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He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
Seth Godin