Fool Quotes
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
George Bernard Shaw
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Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Bryant H. McGill
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One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.
Marvin Sapp
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
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When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
Levon Helm
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The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Lord Byron
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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
Margaret Cavendish
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg
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I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Dalton Trumbo
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After I wrote Handmaid’s Tale, people came up to me and asked why weren’t there any protests. And I said, 'You don’t understand totalitarianism.' A real totalitarianism doesn’t fool around with protests in the streets.
Margaret Atwood
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
Felicity Kendal
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Somebody's gonna give you A lesson in leavin' Somebody's gonna give you back What you've been givin' And I hope that I'm around To watch 'em knock you down It's like you to love'em and leave'em Just like you loved me and left me It's like you to do that sort of thing Over and over again You're a fool-hearted man.
Jo Dee Messina
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
Orson Welles
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That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
Patricia Highsmith
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Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
Plutarch
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'You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.'
W. Somerset Maugham
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
Eric Lynn Wright
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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
David Bailey
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Jonathan Swift