Fool Quotes
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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 -
You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
Ray Bradbury
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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 -
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 -
People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
Scott Adams -
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 -
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 -
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've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
Steve Martin -
If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.
Masashi Kishimoto -
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
Ezra Pound -
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 -
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
Theodore Roethke -
Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
Cecelia Ahern
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My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.
Casey Affleck -
Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.
Michael Moorcock -
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere -
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
Richard Feynman -
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 -
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Moliere
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A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there
Stephen Fry -
I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.
Margaret Mitchell -
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 -
Only a fool would argue with a fool!
Eric Jerome Dickey