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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. — Robin Hobb
There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had… — Edith Wharton
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. — David Gerrold
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. — Larry Niven
I've wanted you since the moment you tried to run me over. You are unlike any woman I have met before. You are strong, and… — Katie MacAlister
On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know… — Gabrielle Zevin
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains… — Louis L'Amour
Any woman who counts on her face is a fool. — Zadie Smith
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool… — W. Somerset Maugham
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so. — John Donne
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the… — Lois McMaster Bujold
What a fool honesty is. — William Shakespeare
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools. — Henry James
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then,… — William Shakespeare
wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i… — E E Cummings
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never… — Robert Jordan
Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not… — Christopher Paolini
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. — Samuel Butler
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that. — Erich Maria Remarque
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our… — William Shakespeare

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