Fool Quotes

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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we… — Robert Grudin
The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a… — Thomas Paine
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master. — Benjamin Franklin
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin
We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an… — Jean Genet
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. — Elbert Hubbard
Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's… — Cecil Arthur Lewis
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. — Confucius
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. — Michel de Montaigne
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded… — Ernest Hemingway
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… — John Milton
There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the… — Henry Ford
I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got. — Margaret Mitchell
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools. — Walter Winchell
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work… — Alain de Botton
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her. — Agatha Christie
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and… — Miguel de Cervantes

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