Fool Quotes
3350 quotes by 1929 authors
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth…
— Groucho Marx
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Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there…
— Andy Rooney
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I’m afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
— Jeanette Winterson
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a…
— Anais Nin
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that…
— William Butler Yeats
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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
— Dean Koontz
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It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…
— Carter G. Woodson
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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
— Robin Hobb
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There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had…
— Edith Wharton
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
— David Gerrold
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I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
— Larry Niven
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I've wanted you since the moment you tried to run me over. You are unlike any woman I have met before. You are strong, and…
— Katie MacAlister
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On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains…
— Louis L'Amour
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