Fool Quote by Adlai E. Stevenson

“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”

Adlai E. Stevenson

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“She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. ”

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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention…

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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's…

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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in…

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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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“In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.”

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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a…

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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is,…

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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one…

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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the…

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There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none…

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks…

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