Fool Quotes
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My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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It is a popular idea that a man is a hero just because he was killed in action. Rather, I think, a man is frequently a fool when he gets killed.
George S. Patton
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Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.
Elissa Schappell
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A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.
Canibus
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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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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
Seneca the Younger
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Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
Stephen Fry
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What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
Anne Bronte
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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
Miguel de Cervantes
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As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.
Sepp Blatter
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I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.
Ben Rector
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"OK, well everyone makes a mistake, right?" But then when you think it probably happened again that's when you think: "Shame on you once and shame on me twice, or however that saying goes." But everyone's been down that road. It's not about the little things anymore, but the major things that tell you if you don't move on at that point then I'm a fool.
Michelle Monaghan
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder
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Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
Cecil Taylor
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
Ezra Pound
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Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.
Shirley Henderson
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You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.
Natsuki Takaya
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The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
Gautama Buddha
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
Alexandre Dumas
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes
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It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's down. Now taxi in. Switch off. It's over - but not quite, for the port engine, just as if it knew, as if reluctant at the last to let me go, kicked, kicked, and kicked again, as overheated engines will, then backfired with an angry snorting: Fool! The best is over ...But I did not hear.
Cecil Arthur Lewis
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
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He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.
Richard O'Brien