Fool Quotes
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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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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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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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I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
Steve Martin
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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.
Gautama Buddha
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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.
William Hazlitt
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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.
Studs Terkel
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
Ezra Pound
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
Richard Feynman
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There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.
Jesse Livermore
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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.
Paul Gauguin
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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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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
Moliere
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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.
Will Durant
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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.
Will Ferrell
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My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.
Casey Affleck
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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.
Helen Keller
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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.
Theodore Roethke
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Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.
Michael Moorcock
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere
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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.
Sarah Dessen
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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
David Bowie
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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.
Margaret Mitchell