Fools Quotes
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
Norm MacDonald -
Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
Abraham Lincoln
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Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.
Al-Maʿarri -
We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
Lord Byron -
In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw -
We did make fools of ourselves, but people were into it.
Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys -
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Jonathan Swift
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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
John Milton -
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
Sophocles -
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
Ivan Turgenev -
If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
Conn Iggulden -
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.
Ernest Hemingway -
Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
David C. Stark
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We are all fools in love.
Jane Austen -
The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
Washington Allston -
There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.
Narayanananda Swami -
The future is too good to waste on lies and life is way too short to care for the damnation of others as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.
Bowe Bergdahl -
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.
Claude Maxwell MacDonald
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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
Plato -
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
Elsie de Wolfe -
I feel I do what I love, and the fools pay me for it.
Ernie Colon