Fool Quotes
3350 quotes by 1977 authors
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The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
— Marie de France
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
— Benjamin Franklin
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
— Robert Frost
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Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of…
— Robert Fulghum
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Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
— Thomas Fuller
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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
— Thomas Fuller
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I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
— Neil Gaiman
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
— James A. Garfield
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
— David Gerrold
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
— Barry Goldwater
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
— Baltasar Gracian
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools…
— Francesco Guicciardini
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