Fool Quotes
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An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
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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.
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Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.
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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.
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
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I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along.
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.
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The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
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Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
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My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.
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Only a fool would argue with a fool!
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Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.
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Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return
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I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.
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I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.
