Fool Quotes
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He wanted to tell me that he thought he finally knew why Christ said to call no man Fool. Christ had said it, Seymour thought I'd want to know, because there are no fools. Dopes, yes - fools, no.
J. D. Salinger -
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
Kabir
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The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
Buck Owens -
I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
Captain Beefheart -
One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.
Marvin Sapp -
Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.
Genesis Rodriguez -
I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
Karen Joy Fowler -
Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
Plutarch
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A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax -
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
Bette Midler -
I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
Alice James -
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
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Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
Earl Wilson -
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Lord Byron -
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
George Bernard Shaw -
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Leo Burnett -
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
Octavia E. Butler -
I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don't fool me. The hurt doesn't show But the pain still grows It's no stranger to you and me.
Phil Collins Genesis
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Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool
Rachel Caine -
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker -
Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
Andy Rooney -
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
Karl G. Maeser