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Quotes About Fool

It is to see at a glance the glory of the world, to see beauty in all its forms and manifestations, to feel ugliness like a pain, to resent the wrongs of others as bitterly as one's own, to know mankind as others know single men, to know Nature as botanists know a flower, to be thought a fool, to hear at moments the clear voice of God.
~ Lord Dunsany
You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?
~ Lorena Bathey
Only a fool could set eyes on you and see an old maid.
~ Lori G. Armstrong
To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.
~ Louis L'Amour
He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.
~ Louis L'Amour
He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.
~ Louis L'Amour
Don' mean to have any. It's fun to watch other people philander, but I should feel like a fool doing it myself, Said Jo, looking alarmed at the thought.
~ Louisa May Alcott
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man- There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:- That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins From The Gods of the Copybook Headings
~ Rudyard Kipling
A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Then says Mrs. Hauksbee to me – she looked a trifle faded and jaded in the lamplight: "Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
~ Rudyard Kipling
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
~ Rudyard Kipling
I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted.
~ Ruth Reichl
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
~ S.J. Perelman
if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it.
~ S.M. Stirling
Who is the madder,' Osman the clown whispered into his bullock's ear as he groomed it in its small byre, 'the madwoman, or the fool who loves the madwoman?' The bullock didn't reply. 'Maybe we should have stayed untouchable,' Osman continued. 'A compulsory ocean sounds worse than a forbidden well.' And the bullock nodded, twice for yes, boom, boom.
~ Salman Rushdie
Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.
~ Robby Krieger
We fool ourselvesinto thinkingwe're strongthen complainthe rest of our livescrippled bythe consequences.
~ Barry Gifford
Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.
~ Michael Flynn, Eifelheim
It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.
~ Alastair Sim
I know that I have been a fool, a madman, to believe that the snow could have been animated, that the marble could grow warm; but what would you expect? The lover easily believes in love, nor has my journey been entirely in vain, since I behold you now.
~ Alexandre Dumas
She had been wrong about love. She had thought it was meant for fools alone, only to discover it was a fool who walked away from love, no matter the cost or the penalty.
~ Alice Hoffman
and if a fool is believed then those who believe him are even bigger fools.
~ Alice Hoffman
In the dining room, my brother—the scholar—was asking my father what it meant, amadan. My father said, "A fool. It means someone's a fool." Even with the water running, the cup of soapy water at my lips, I could hear my father's shout of laughter when my brother asked him, "Who is?
~ Alice McDermott