Fools Quotes

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We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that… — Bertrand Russell
Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages. — Steven Tyler
Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do… — Alice Sebold
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking about? If money… — George Burns
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly. — Jorge Luis Borges
Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an… — Nadeem Aslam
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren… — D. H. Lawrence
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing… — Joyce Kilmer
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond… — William Shakespeare
Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of… — Cormac McCarthy
Time is making fools of us again. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.' Quite often men are fools. — P. C. Cast
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about?… — George Bernard Shaw
We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we… — Dave Eggers
We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it. — Michael Grant
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Regret is just a waste of time for fools. — Kazuya Minekura
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how. — Lorrie Moore
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully… — Alan Brennert

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