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Fool Quotes by Mark Twain
- Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can…
- When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are…
- Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
- But old fools is the biggest fools there is.
- If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
- If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
- Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he…
- The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
- Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
- Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
- I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
- He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and…
- What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?
- Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
- Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
- It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
- July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves,…
- It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.
More Fool Quotes
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool. — Dan Aykroyd
- People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks… — Francis Bacon
- Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. — Douglas Bader
- A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. — Lord Acton
- Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now. — David Bailey
- When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. — Russell Baker
- Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. — Honore de Balzac
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams