Fools Quotes
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We are all fools in love.
Jane Austen
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.
Claude Maxwell MacDonald
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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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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.
Norm MacDonald
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European lotteries are the tax on fools.
Cavour
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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
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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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Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.
Bob Marley
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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings
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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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Do they think that the people of Northern Ireland are fools?
Ian Paisley
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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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Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.
Tim Ferriss
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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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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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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
Scott Westerfeld
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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
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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
George Bernard Shaw