Fools Quotes
1120 quotes by 792 authors
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The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and…
— George R. R. Martin
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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them…
— Anton Chekhov
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Yes,†said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it.…
— Rebecca West
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Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.
— Brent Weeks
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Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue-…
— Ally Carter
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Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers,…
— H. Rider Haggard
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Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and…
— Kate Mosse
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
— Emile Zola
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All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.
— George R. R. Martin
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter…
— Bruce Sterling
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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean…
— H.G. Wells
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Its time we woke up,†pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Why do fools fall in love? I'll tell you why, because everybody else has simply got too much else to do.
— Jon Richardson
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What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
— Lauren Oliver
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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
— Warren Buffett
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Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
— Sonya Hartnett
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Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile…
— Alethea Kontis
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O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.
— George R. R. Martin
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