Fools Quotes
1120 quotes by 792 authors
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The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests…
— Kevin Myers
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People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
— E. W. Howe
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When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the…
— Joan D. Vinge
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Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.
— Joe Abercrombie
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were…
— Saint Augustine
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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
— Horace
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He who dreams ... does not know he is dreaming... . Only when he awakens does he know he has dreamt. But there is also…
— Zhuangzi
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the…
— Moliere
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Travel is a fools paradise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it…
— John Kendrick Bangs
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants…
— William Hazlitt
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What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
— Joseph Hall
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It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
— George Eliot
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Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
— Andre Gide
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