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Quotes About Fool

When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing the same.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I'd rather be quiet and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln
squirrel is in a pine tree, when all of a sudden, it starts shaking. He looks down, and sees an elephant climbing the tree. 'What are you doing? Why are you climbing my tree?' the squirrel calls down to the elephant. 'I'm coming up there to eat some pears!' the elephant responds. 'You fool! This is a pine tree! There aren't any pears up here!' The elephant looks perplexed for a moment, and then says, 'Well, I brought my own pears.
~ Adrian McKinty
The best actors work the hardest but make it look easy. You have to master your nerves to do the job. You have to be willing to make a fool out of yourself. After a while, if you're smart and paying attention, bit by bit, line by line, you begin to understand how to interpret a character.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.
~ Aeschylus
I'm even a fool at the flower arrangement. I ought to have a Ph.D. in the subject the number of classes I've been to but still my efforts show as much evidence of art as walking sticks in an umbrella stand.
~ Alan Bennett
If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
~ Desmond Bagley
You know Case, who oversees the dairy? He saw us together in the loft last week. He says I'm the biggest fool who ever lived. I don't think he's right. But, just to be safe, I'll put out the lamp. We'll pretend we're the ancient explorers, and find our way by the stars. Yours, Kai
~ Diana Peterfreund
Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
we shall never again try to convince a fool by reason, for it is both useless and dangerous.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Any fool can cry wolf; to cry sheep is inspired, the work of a subtle, contradancing mind.
~ Donald Barthelme
It's only the fool who, because he's fallen once from grace, believes he should never have tried to be in the state of grace to begin with.
~ Donald E. Westlake
My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.
~ Idris Elba
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
~ Samuel Beckett
When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.
~ James Frey
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
~ Frank Moore Colby
Hye Evans? That fat old fool," said Lilian. "That man couldn't diagnose a nail sticking out of your leg if you turned up with a nail sticking out of your leg, saying 'Doctor, I just accidentally hammered a nail into my leg.
~ Jenny Colgan
All this? It's a privilege to worship at this temple, do you understand my meaning? Not just any young fool can approach the throne. Remember my words, Lara Jean. You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever. (Stormy)
~ Jenny Han
Every man that ever got to touch me was afforded an honor. A privilege." Stormy waves her hand over me. "All this? It's a privilege to worship at this temple, do you understand my meaning? Not just any young fool can approach the throne.
~ Jenny Han
YOU KIDDIN' ME! You a damn fool and I'm sick of your whining! I'm the little girl, I'm the one that should be whining and crying, not you!
~ Jeremy Love
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.
~ Jeremy Taylor
My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.
~ Ernest Hemingway