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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain
The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home. — Jimmy Buffett
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring… — E E Cummings
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool… — Abraham Lincoln
Most fools think they are only ignorant. — Benjamin Franklin
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Oh, I am fortune's fool! — William Shakespeare
Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or… — Daphne du Maurier
It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was… — Rafael Sabatini
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. — Clive Barker
Compromise is a stalling between two fools. — Stephen Fry
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. — Woody Guthrie
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool. — Mark Twain
He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other… — Daniel Defoe
Lord, what fools these mortals be! — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. — Jeanette Winterson
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
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
Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton. — Dean Koontz
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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