Fool Quotes
3350 Fool quotes by 1831 unique authors
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I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
— Iain Banks
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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean…
— H.G. Wells
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For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.
— Paul McCartney
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Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll…
— George R. R. Martin
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I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a…
— Stephen Fry
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Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.
— Jon Richardson
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool…
— Harlan Coben
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You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
— Alfred Bester
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What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
— Lauren Oliver
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There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
— Warren Buffett
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Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
— Sonya Hartnett
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.
— William Shakespeare
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Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile…
— Alethea Kontis
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O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Look down at me and you see a fool, Look up at me and you see a god, Look straight at me and you see…
— Charles Manson
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I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.
— George R. R. Martin
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