Fool Quotes
3350 quotes by 1977 authors
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No fool can be silent at a feast.
— Solon
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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike,…
— Philip James Bailey
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He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
— Plutarch
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Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
— Christopher Marlowe
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Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a…
— Dale Carnegie
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Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without…
— Paul Gauguin
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Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
— Charles Churchill
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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
— Charles Churchill
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Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
— Charles Churchill
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The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
— Booth Tarkington
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The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special…
— Sherwood Anderson
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There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.
— Harvey Mackay
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Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in…
— David Hockney
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I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
— Philip Massinger
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The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.
— Theodore Parker
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
— Cato the Younger
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Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he…
— J. B. Priestley
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You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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