Fool Quotes

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Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Travel is a fools paradise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. — Jean de la Bruyere
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he… — Jean de la Bruyere
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. — Jean de la Bruyere
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool — E. W. Howe
You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it… — John Kendrick Bangs
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain… — Michel de Montaigne
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! — William Shakespeare
To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass. — Carl Sandburg
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants… — William Hazlitt
The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy. — William Blake
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his… — Chili Davis
Silence is all the genius a fool has. — Zora Neale Hurston
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool. — Lewis Carroll
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! — Joseph Hall
It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you. — Burgess Meredith
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself. — W. Somerset Maugham
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. — W. Somerset Maugham
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. — Charles Caleb Colton
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools. — Andre Gide

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