Fool Quotes
3350 Fool quotes by 1831 unique authors
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
— Oscar Wilde
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It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE,…
— Alexander Pope
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As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone…
— Ambrose Bierce
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(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had…
— Saul Bellow
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They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love…
— Olive Ann Burns
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People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to…
— Terry Goodkind
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How did you-" Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened.
— Maria V. Snyder
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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
— Eric Clapton
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Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests…
— Mark Helprin
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Only fools want to be great.
— T.H. White
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In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do…
— Robert Fulghum
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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What-ifs are for fools
— Obert Skye
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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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