Fools Quotes

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We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and… — Philip Neri
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools. — John Dryden
How easy love makes fools of us. — Moliere
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here? — Nathanael Emmons
EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends. — Ambrose Bierce
If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools. — William Penn
One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything.… — Mike Krzyzewski
I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you… — Walter Isaacson
The way to get to the top of the heap in terms of developing original research is to be a fool, because only fools keep… — Martin Hellman
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as… — William Booth
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet. — John Fowles
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong… — Alexander Pope
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded… — Robert Baden-Powell
Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb!… — Henry Vaughan
There are many possibilities that people can choose from. There are bad and there are good ones. So, look carefully to choose for yourself the… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way. — George Crabbe
How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called… — Horace Walpole
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend… — Jonathan Swift
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. — Thomas Jefferson
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average. — W. Somerset Maugham

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