Fools Quotes
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The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
Washington Allston
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Lord Byron
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
Ezra Taft Benson
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I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
Scott Westerfeld
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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
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We are all fools in love.
Jane Austen
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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
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Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
Norm MacDonald
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
George Bernard Shaw
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European lotteries are the tax on fools.
Cavour
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.
Bob Marley
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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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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
Sophocles
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Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.
Jean Chretien
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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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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
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The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
Martin Luther
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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
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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
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I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
Elsie de Wolfe
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I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.
Margaret Mitchell