Fool Quotes
3350 quotes by 1977 authors
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A fool and his money be soon at debate
— Thomas Tusser
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Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of…
— Gore Vidal
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"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."
— Calvin Trillin
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American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door.…
— Charley Reese
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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A fool harvests his opinions in the spring.
— Terry Rossio
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools,…
— Plutarch
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He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.
— Samuel Tuke
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I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
— Leon Spinks
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Who are a little wise the best fools be.
— John Donne
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Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very…
— Josemaria Escriva
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A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
— Nancy Astor
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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as…
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.
— Frederick Salomon Perls
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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
— Alexander Pope
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Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and…
— Randolph Bedford
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
— Zhuangzi
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Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
— Bertolt Brecht
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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