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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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
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Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.
Tim Ferriss
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
Scott Westerfeld
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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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We are all fools in love.
Jane Austen
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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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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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European lotteries are the tax on fools.
Cavour
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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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Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.
Bob Marley
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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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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 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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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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Do they think that the people of Northern Ireland are fools?
Ian Paisley
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
Elsie de Wolfe