Fool Quotes
3350 quotes by 1977 authors
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Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.
— Edward Abbey
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Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
— Edward Abbey
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
— Edward Abbey
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
— Edward Abbey
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
— Edward Abbey
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One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
— George Orwell
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I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the…
— Ray Bradbury
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We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what…
— Ray Bradbury
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You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
— Ray Bradbury
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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in…
— Ray Bradbury
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God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness…
— Marquis de Sade
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
— Horace
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
— Horace
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A fool cannot hold his tongue.
— Plutarch
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Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will…
— Ruhollah Khomeini
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I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools…
— Bob Fosse
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This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I…
— Herman Melville
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