Fool Quotes

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large… — Will Durant
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a… — Lawrence Durrell
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. — Albert Einstein
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. — George Eliot
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise. — George Eliot
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. — Elizabeth I
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. — Jim Elliot
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. — Epicurus
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as… — Desiderius Erasmus
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. — Euripides
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. — Richard P. Feynman
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. — W.C. Fields
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. — Gustave Flaubert
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. — Jean de La Fontaine
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. — E. M. Forster
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet. — Salma Hayek
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. — William Hazlitt

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