Fool Quotes

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How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! — William Shakespeare
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass. — Carl Sandburg
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants… — William Hazlitt
The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy. — William Blake
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his… — Chili Davis
Silence is all the genius a fool has. — Zora Neale Hurston
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool. — Lewis Carroll
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! — Joseph Hall
It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you. — Burgess Meredith
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself. — W. Somerset Maugham
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. — W. Somerset Maugham
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools. — Andre Gide
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father. — Ben Jonson
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us. — Eric Temple Bell
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Fortune, that favors fools. — Ben Jonson
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. — Anna Brownell Jameson

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