Fool Quotes
3350 Fool quotes by 1831 unique authors
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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than…
— Margaret Cavendish
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Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead…
— Adam Savage
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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not…
— Rajneesh
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Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors…
— Maryrose Wood
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Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
— Robert Breault
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Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
— Horace
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None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
— John Dryden
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I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a…
— Gioachino Rossini
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You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
— Malcolm Forbes
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If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
— William H. Gass
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They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly…
— Robin Wasserman
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The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense…
— Woodrow Wilson
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If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.
— Napoleon Hill
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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
— Seth Godin
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
— J. G. Ballard
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How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or…
— Ann Radcliffe
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Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
— Barack Obama
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If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.
— Frank Abagnale
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This is one of theprimary mechanisms whereby, if a fool says the sun is shining, we do notcorrectly discard this as irrelevant nonevidence, but rather…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
— Avicenna
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