Fool Quotes

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I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a… — Gioachino Rossini
You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are. — Malcolm Forbes
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. — William H. Gass
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly… — Robin Wasserman
The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense… — Woodrow Wilson
If you donâ€™t want your life to be 'messed up', donâ€™t fool around with those who have messed up theirs. — Napoleon Hill
The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up. — Seth Godin
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. — J. G. Ballard
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or… — Ann Radcliffe
Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But itâ€™s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can… — Kurt Vonnegut
Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. — Barack Obama
If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools. — Frank Abagnale
This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness? — Avicenna
My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he… — Ellen Goodman
A wise man never enjoys himself so much, nor a fool so little, as when alone. — Josh Billings
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him. — Sophocles
You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts. — Howard Thurston
When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling… — Dale Carnegie

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