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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Author:
Edward Young
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.
Author:
Edward Young
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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Author:
John Whittier
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Author:
Simone Weil
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Author:
Alice Walker
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Author:
Voltaire
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Author:
Voltaire
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Author:
Voltaire
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
Author:
John Tillotson
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Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.
Author:
Evan Thomas
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Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
Author:
Bill Terry
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
Author:
King Solomon
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
Author:
Patti Smith
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It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
Author:
Maggie Smith
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Author:
Barbara Smith
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My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.
Author:
Michelle Shocked
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I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Author:
George Shaw
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
Author:
Olive Schreiner
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I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
Author:
George Santayana
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Author:
Carl Rowan
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Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
Author:
Chi Rodriguez
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Author:
Plato
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Author:
Alan Perlis
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
Author:
Samuel Pepys
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Author:
Samuel Pepys
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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Author:
Jean Paul
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Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
Author:
John Muir
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Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
Author:
Roger Mudd
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.
Author:
William Melbourne
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The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
Author:
Og Mandino
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Author:
Doris Lessing
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Author:
Doug Larson
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Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Author:
Ted Koppel
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
Author:
Holbrook Jackson
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Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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Only fools are positive.
Author:
Moe Howard
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Author:
Horace
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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Author:
Horace
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
Author:
James Hogan
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Words are the money of fools.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Author:
Claud-Adrian Helvetius
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There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Author:
Heinrich Heine
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
Author:
Salma Hayek
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Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
Author:
Kenneth Grahame
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
Author:
John Gay
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Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Silence is the wit of fools.
Author:
Anatole France
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
Author:
E. Forster
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The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
Author:
C. Forester
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Author:
Aulus Flaccus
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Fools are without number.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Author:
Henry Ellis
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
Author:
John Donne
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Author:
Frank Dane
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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
Author:
Wilkie 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.
Author:
Paulo Coelho
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With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
Author:
Glenn Close
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Author:
Queen Christina
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Author:
Anton Chekhov
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Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Author:
George Chapman
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Author:
Nicolas Chamfort
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The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?
Author:
Thomas Chalmers
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Author:
Angela Carter
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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
Author:
John Carre
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Author:
Dale Carnegie
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
Author:
Taylor Caldwell
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
Author:
Abraham Cahan
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Author:
Lord Byron
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
Author:
Ralph Bunche
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
Author:
Nicolas Boileau
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Author:
Bodhidharma
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I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
Author:
Jack Black
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Author:
Josh Billings
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
Author:
Earl Biggers
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
Author:
Ezra Benson
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
Author:
E. Bell
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The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
Author:
Bernard Baruch
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
Author:
Christian Bale
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Author:
Russell Baker
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Author:
Douglas Bader
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Author:
Norman Augustine
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Author:
Paddy Ashdown
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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
Author:
Dick Armey
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Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
Author:
Anacharsis
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Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
Author:
William Alexander
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Author:
Alcuin
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New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Author:
James Agate
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Author:
Douglas Adams
