Fools Quotes

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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a… — Swami Vivekananda
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… — W. Somerset Maugham
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease! — Alexander Pope
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! — William Shakespeare
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. — Thomas Otway
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and… — Sterling W Sill
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds. — Horace
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly… — Robin Wasserman
If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools. — Frank Abagnale
My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he… — Ellen Goodman
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him. — Sophocles
When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling… — Dale Carnegie
His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life,… — Shalom Auslander
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of… — Paul Cezanne
Fools despise wisdom and instruction. — Solomon
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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