Fool Quotes
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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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So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.
Nicholas Sparks
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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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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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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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You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
Seth Godin
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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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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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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.
Bruce Sterling
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I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.
Charles Macaulay
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I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
Steve Martin
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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
Moliere
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
Richard Feynman
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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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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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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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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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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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I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.
Margaret Mitchell
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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 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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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