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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Author:
Edward Young
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Author:
Andrew Young
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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
Author:
William Wycherley
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Author:
Frank Wright
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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
Author:
John Woolman
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Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
Author:
Tom Wilkinson
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I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Author:
Katherine Whitehorn
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Author:
Mae West
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Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
Author:
Orson Welles
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A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Author:
Stanley Weiser
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Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Author:
Frank Wedekind
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Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
Author:
Voltaire
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Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
Author:
Jon Voight
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
Author:
Don Vliet
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I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
Author:
Bill Veeck
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
Author:
Miguel Unamuno
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That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Author:
Mark Twain
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
Author:
Thomas Tusser
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
Author:
Dalton Trumbo
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
Author:
Lars Trier
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
Author:
James Thurber
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Author:
Hunter Thompson
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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
Author:
Dylan Thomas
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I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.
Author:
Denis Thatcher
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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
Author:
William Thackeray
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Author:
Randall Terry
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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.
Author:
Sharon Tate
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
Author:
Rod Stewart
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
Author:
Gwen Stefani
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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Author:
Richard Steele
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
Author:
Leon Spinks
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I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
Author:
Sophocles
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A fool is wise in his eyes.
Author:
King Solomon
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No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
Author:
Thomas Smith
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It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Author:
Joey Skaggs
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Author:
Diogenes Sinope
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
Author:
Robert Sherwood
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
Author:
William Shenstone
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Author:
George Shaw
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If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
Author:
William Shatner
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
Author:
William Shakespeare
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
Author:
Thomas Shadwell
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Author:
George Savile
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Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
Author:
Adam Savage
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Author:
Olivier Sarkozy
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
Author:
George Santayana
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Author:
Marquis Sade
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I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.
Author:
Richard Russo
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A fool and her money are soon courted.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Author:
Joseph Roux
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I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.
Author:
Cesar Romero
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
Author:
Will Rogers
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Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
Author:
Nile Rodgers
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You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
Author:
Nile Rodgers
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I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
Author:
Knute Rockne
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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People come out to see the players. When do you see a manager anyway? When he's out on the field arguing with the umpires, making a fool of himself and you know you can't win, and when he brings out the line-up card.
Author:
Frank Robinson
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I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true.
Author:
Ann Robinson
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
Author:
Pat Robertson
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Author:
Anne Rice
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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
Author:
Theodor Reik
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Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.
Author:
Michael Reed
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Only a genius can play a fool.
Author:
Michael Rapaport
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
Author:
J. Priestley
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As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.
Author:
Richard Posner
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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
Author:
Phaedrus
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
Author:
William Penn
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It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
Author:
Al Pacino
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Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Author:
Carroll O'Connor
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
Author:
J. Morton
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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
Author:
Robert Morley
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Author:
Baron Montesquieu
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To marry a fool is to be no fool.
Author:
Moliere
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Author:
Moliere
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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
Author:
Margaret Mitchell
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Author:
H. Mencken
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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
Author:
Lord Melbourne
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You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
Author:
Donella Meadows
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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
Author:
Phyllis McGinley
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Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
Author:
John McCain
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
Author:
W. Maugham
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My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Author:
Bob Marley
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Author:
Leonard Maltin
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
Author:
Harold MacMillan
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
Author:
Adrian Lyne
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Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.
Author:
Henry Lodge, Jr.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
Author:
Joseph Levine
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.
Author:
Kenneth Lay
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The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
Author:
Jerome Lawrence
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A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Author:
Louis L'Amour
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Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.
Author:
Henry Kravis
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Author:
Michael Korda
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
Author:
Felicity Kendal
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I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
Author:
Danny Kaye
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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Author:
Pauline Kael
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Author:
Carl Jung
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Author:
Erica Jong
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If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
Author:
Angelina Jolie
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
Author:
Billy Joel
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I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.
Author:
Billy Joel
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Author:
Anna Jameson
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Author:
Alice James
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I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.
Author:
Hugh Jackman
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
Author:
James Huneker
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The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Author:
Kin Hubbard
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Author:
Horace
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I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.
Author:
Benny Hinn
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That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
Author:
Patricia Highsmith
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The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
Author:
John Hewson
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The fool knows after he's suffered.
Author:
Hesiod
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I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
Author:
Levon Helm
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When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
Author:
Levon Helm
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Author:
Heinrich Heine
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Author:
Cynthia Heimel
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
Author:
J. Hayworth
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But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.
Author:
Sean Hayes
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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No one but a fool is always right.
Author:
David Hare
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Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Author:
Alec Guinness
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Author:
Ursula Guin
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.
Author:
Jeff Goldblum
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A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Author:
Max Gluckman
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I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
Author:
David Gerrold
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
Author:
James Garfield
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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Author:
Neil Gaiman
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
Author:
James Fulbright
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
Author:
J. Fulbright
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Author:
Robert Frost
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
Author:
Marie France
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
Author:
Anatole France
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
Author:
W. Fields
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Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.
Author:
Suzanne Fields
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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One fool at least in every married couple.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek.
Author:
Jim Fiebig
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Author:
Richard Feynman
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Author:
Euripides
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The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Author:
Epicurus
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Author:
Jim Elliot
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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
Author:
George Eliot
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Author:
Will Durant
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
Author:
John Dryden
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Author:
John Dryden
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
Author:
John Dryden
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He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
Author:
William Drummond
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He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Author:
William Drummond
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It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Author:
Norman Douglas
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I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Author:
Donna Douglas
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Author:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
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John Donne
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
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Thomas Dekker
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It takes a fool to test how deep the water is with both feet.
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J. Day
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It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
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Antonio Davis
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Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
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Robertson Davies
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Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
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Bobby Darin
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
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Roald Dahl
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My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.
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Steve Cropper
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
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William Cowper
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I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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Alan Coren
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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
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Anderson Cooper
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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William Congreve
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Charles Colton
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Charles Colton
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A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
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John Collins
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The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
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Paulo Coelho
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Luc Clapier
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Marcus Cicero
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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Marcus Cicero
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
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Marcus Cicero
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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John Ciardi
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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Agatha Christie
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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Lord Chesterfield
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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Ilka Chase
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
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Charlie Chaplin
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Miguel Cervantes
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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
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Margaret Cavendish
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In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
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Giacomo Casanova
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
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Giacomo Casanova
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The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
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William Cartwright
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
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Dale Carnegie
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
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Andrew Carnegie
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But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
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Donald Cargill
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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
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Joseph Cannon
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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Albert Camus
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I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
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Maria Callas
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
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George Byron
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Samuel Butler
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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Samuel Butler
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You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
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George Bush
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That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
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David Burns
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I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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Leo Burnett
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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Sitting Bull
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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Pearl Buck
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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
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Gerald Brenan
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In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
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Alain Botton
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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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Daniel Boorstin
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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
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Dave Blood
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
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William Blake
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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William Blake
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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William Blake
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We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.
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John Blair
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Otto Bismarck
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
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Josh Billings
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Ambrose Bierce
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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
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Al Bernstein
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A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
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Saul Bellow
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I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
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Chris Bell
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I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.
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Chris Bell
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We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more.
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Franz Beckenbauer
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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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Lynda Barry
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You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.
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Bob Barker
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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J. Ballard
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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Francis Bacon
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I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
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Armand Assante
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Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
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Roone Arledge
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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
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Minna Antrim
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I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
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Julie Andrews
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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Harry Anderson
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Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
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Archibald Alexander
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It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.
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Marv Albert
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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Akhenaton
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It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
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Scipio Africanus
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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Author:
Joseph Addison
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Author:
Joey Adams
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Author:
Franklin Adams
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Lord Acton
