Fool Quotes
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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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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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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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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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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
Ally Carter
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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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He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
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The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
Marilyn Monroe
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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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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
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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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If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
Theophrastus
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You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, an integrity that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen.
Richard Feynman
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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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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
Lewis Carroll
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Norman Douglas
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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
William Shakespeare
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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
Seth Godin
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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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From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?
Joseph Heller
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The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.”
George Walter
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Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
Charles Fletcher Lummis