Fool Quotes

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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign… — Dalton Trumbo
Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe.… — Joe Abercrombie
Hard words are for fools and cowards. — Joe Abercrombie
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. — Olive Schreiner
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools. — Alan Paton
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate… — Cato the Elder
What a fool I have been! — Winston Churchill
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. — Walter Raleigh
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. — Basil Bunting
Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not… — Aristotle
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems… — George Eliot
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can… — Mark Twain
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but… — Benjamin Franklin
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. — Seneca the Younger
History, history! We fools, what do we know or care. — William Carlos Williams
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and… — Walpola Rahula
The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool. — Ambrose Bierce
If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a… — Satchel Paige
So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential. — Gloria Steinem
Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. — Angela Carter

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