Fool Quotes
3350 quotes by 1977 authors
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not…
— Seneca the Younger
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Thirty millions, mostly fools.
— Thomas Carlyle
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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about…
— Richard Posner
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A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough to stay in…
— S. J. Perelman
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A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
— George Meredith
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Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.
— Henry Ford
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Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting…
— Mark Driscoll
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Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words. That’s what fools do. And often, that’s what we do.
— Francis Chan
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The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.
— Frank Ocean
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Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool…
— John D. MacDonald
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We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
— Mignon McLaughlin
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He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.
— Jim Elliot
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Martin Luther, when he walked in the woods, used to raise his hat to the birds and say, ‘Good morning, theologians—you wake and sing, but…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
— Benito Mussolini
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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
— Al Bernstein
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A fool and his money are quickly parted.
— Jeff Bridges
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Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better
— Jeff Van Gundy
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