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Quotes About Fools

Only fools lay claims where lovers thread for when such love is renewed, lovers dance upon their heads.
~ Chinonye J. Chidolue
For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.
~ Tom Conrad
All their doors remained simple doors, on/off switches in the flow between two adjacent places, binarily either open or closed, but each of their doors, regarded thus with a twinge of irrational possibility, became partially animate as well, an object with a subtle power to mock, to mock the desires of those who desired to go far away, whispering silently from its door frame that such dreams were the dreams of fools.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Carl Parker observes, if you took all the fools out of the Lege, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore.
~ Molly Ivins
My mother had enough magic to give me three blessings before she died," I said, and he instinctively bent in to hear it. "The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third—that fools should recognize neither." Irina
~ Naomi Novik
My mother had enough magic to give me three blessings before she died," I said, and he instinctively bent in to hear it. "The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third—that fools should recognize neither.
~ Naomi Novik
The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third—that fools should recognize neither.
~ Naomi Novik
My mother had enough magic to give me three blessings before she died. The first was wit; the second beauty, and the third — that fools should recognize neither.
~ Naomi Novik
Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A madman is one who considers himself sane and thinks that fools don't belong in his rank.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When it comes to lying, what one must consider is not the plausibility of the fib but the greed, fear, and stupidity of the receiver. One never lies to people; they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand and choose the level of self-delusion that fits their foolishness and moral turpitude. That's the secret. Oldest trick in the world.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When it comes to lying, what one must consider is not the plausibility of the fib but the greed, fear, and stupidity of the receiver. One never lies to people; they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand and choose the level of self-delusion that fits their foolishness and moral turpitude.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Magic is for weak-hearted fools, whereas miracles are born of faith, and nothing else.
~ Cecilia Samartin
ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
~ Charlaine Harris
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
~ Edward Young
Husbands who have been deceived and lied to and made to look fools have for centuries fled to South America, never to return. It's a tradition that goes back a long way.
~ Thomas Bernhard
To give too much room to the latent feeling which is rather common in these days among the unappreciated, that because some remarkably successful men are fools, all remarkably unsuccessful men are geniuses.' 'Pretty
~ Thomas Hardy
Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?
~ Thomas Love Peacock
A swan is out of place among crows, a lion among bulls, a horse among asses, and a wise man among fools.
~ Burmese Proverb
We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
~ Byron
But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.
~ Cameron Dokey
I'd try eBay, if I were you," Harry replies. "You might even get more than you paid for it." Plenty of fools all over the planet willing to pay good money for allegedly haunted bric-a-brac.
~ Camille DeAngelis
Real encouragers are willing to be fools in the eyes of cynics because they have a great vision
~ Candy Paull
A fair sprinkling of fools in the world is as enlivening as a pinch of salt in a loaf of bread. They give a relish to life, and flavour with a brisk spicery of nonsense what would otherwise be oppressively flat. Civilized existence, if it were always cooked up and served to us by Mrs. Grundy herself, would be unpalatable enough; but luckily her infallible recipes are not always carried out, and a few plums and cloves get into her pudding.
~ Gelett Burgess