Fool Quotes
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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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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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The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.
Marilyn Monroe
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
Ezra Pound
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Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
Stephen Fry
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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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The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.”
George Walter
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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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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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After the event, even a fool is wise.
Homer
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
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It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.
Carter G. Woodson
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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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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
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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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All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.
Haruki Murakami
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You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.
Natsuki Takaya
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I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.
Peggy Lipton
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Only a fool would argue with a fool!
Eric Jerome Dickey
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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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I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.
Marcel Proust
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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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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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Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
Miguel de Cervantes