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Quotes About Fool

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
~ Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
~ David Gerrold
Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .
~ Cole Porter
A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence.
~ Alex Gaskarth
Scottish philosopher William Drummond, read: "He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot reason is a fool; he who dares not reason is a slave.
~ Jonathan Eig
In a conflict of opinion between Einstein and a fool, one wishes for Einstein to prevail. And in a conflict between Einstein and thousand fools or a million, one wishes all the more for Einstein to prevail.
~ Jonathan Rauch
Kitty shook her head. "You're wrong. Your apology isn't irrelevant and you're a fool if you can't see it. I'm grateful that you stopped Makepeace from having me killed. Now stop being such a wet blanket and try to think of something to do." He looked at her. "Hold on—was there a thanks buried in that pile of invective?
~ Jonathan Stroud
you were a genius and a fool. A genius for what you were capable of doing and a fool for what you did.
~ Emma Darcy
The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
~ Epicurus
Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down
~ Eric Clapton
Ahoy there, Lord Pegleg!" cried the Fool. "Why are you hopping on one foot?" "And what would you have do on one foot?" the man asked. "Pirouette? Besides, if I were to untie my other foot I would move too fast for anyone to see me. Why, I would trip over the equator in one stride." "That's pretty quick," the Fool said. "If you think that's quick," the man replied, "you should have seen me before the old arthritis set in.
~ Eric Metaxas
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.
~ Erica Jong
Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.
~ Erik Christian Haugaard
Mouse-brained fool
~ Erin Hunter
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
~ Bellamy Brooks
It's a sad fact of modern life that sooner or later you will end up on YouTube doing something stupid. The trick, according to my dad, is to make a fool of yourself to the best of your ability.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
~ Ben Franklin
The learned Fool writes his Nonsense in better Language than the unlearned; but still 'tis Nonsense.
~ Ben Franklin
A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling "Thief." If he is wise he has not been impoverished. Nor has the fool been enriched. The thief flatters us by stealing. We flatter him by complaining.
~ Ben Hecht
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.
~ Ben Johnson
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
~ Ben Jonson
Poor wretches! I rather pity their folly and indiscretion, than their loss of time and money; for these may be recovered by industry: but to be a fool born is a disease incurable.
~ Ben Jonson