Fools Quotes

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ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce
INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. — Ambrose Bierce
A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. — Jean de La Fontaine
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns
Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at… — Lord Chesterfield
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. — James Harvey Robinson
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call… — Alexander Pope
A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown. — John Milton
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. — Socrates
Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a… — Dale Carnegie
Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without… — Paul Gauguin
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. — Charles Churchill
Knaves starve not in the land of fools. — Charles Churchill
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special… — Sherwood Anderson
Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions. — Harvey Mackay
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men. — Cato the Younger
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Don't suffer fools or you'll become one. — Tim Ferriss
Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole… — Amy Poehler

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