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Fool Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
- Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any…
- The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
- EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
- PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
- SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read…
- Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
- OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object…
- VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
- April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
- RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
- ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
- INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
- As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone…
- SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read…
- OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive…
- CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
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