Fool Quotes
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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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After the event, even a fool is wise.
Homer
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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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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
Carlo D'Este
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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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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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Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.
Ally Carter
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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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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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The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
Marilyn Monroe
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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 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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Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
Cecelia Ahern
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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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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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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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Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.
Charles Fletcher Lummis
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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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He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
Farquhar McGillivray Knowles
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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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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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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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The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.
Tim Ferriss