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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Mark Twain
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity. — E F Schumacher
Regret is just a waste of time for fools. — Kazuya Minekura
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election. — Robert Harris
I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away… — Kelley Armstrong
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how. — Lorrie Moore
but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house — Darren Shan
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. — W. Somerset Maugham
I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter — Charles Bukowski
We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air.… — Richard Paul Evans
Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel. — Steven Morrissey
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme. — Steven Morrissey
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool. — William Least Heat-Moon
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missionary to Auca indians in Ecuador — Elisabeth Elliot
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully… — Alan Brennert
I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body… — Katherine Mansfield
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to… — Daniel Defoe
Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" “But no living man am I! — J.R.R. Tolkien
All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with… — L. Frank Baum
Well, I can understand how you feel. You worked hard, studying for the spelling bee, and I suppose you feel you let everyone down, and… — Charles M. Schulz
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of… — Victor Pelevin
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you… — Alice Walker
Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself… — Margaret Atwood

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