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Fool Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
- It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most…
- The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one…
- A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
- The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
- It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
- 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…
- if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes…
- I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
- She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.
- I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
More Fool Quotes
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool. — Dan Aykroyd
- People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- Silence is the virtue of fools. — Francis Bacon
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks… — Francis Bacon
- Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. — Douglas Bader
- A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. — Lord Acton
- Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now. — David Bailey
- When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. — Russell Baker
- Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. — Honore de Balzac
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams