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Quotes About Fool

Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
~ Thomas Fuller
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~ Thomas Macaulay
By my faith the fool has feathered his nest well.
~ Thomas Middleton
As politicians we ought not so much to ground our hopes on the reasonableness of the thing we ask, as on the reasonableness of the person whom we ask it: who would expect discretion from a fool, candor from a tyrant, or justice from a villain?
~ Thomas Paine
Let scholastic sophisters entangle themselves in their own cobwebs; I am resolved to take my own existence, and the existence of other things, upon trust; and to believe that snow is cold, and honey sweet, whatever they may say to the contrary. He must either be a fool, or want to make a fool of me, that would reason me out of my reason and senses.
~ Thomas Reid
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
~ Thornton Wilder
there's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" - Paul Hudson
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" Absorbing his words was like taking a drink of hot tea. They burned on the way down, but soothed my insides once they had time to cool off. We
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't know a soul who couldn't see a fool jest by lookin' in the glass. I been one myself, once't or twice't. So hesh up now. Cryin' ain't go'n do no good.
~ Olive Ann Burns
pag. 131 Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
~ Orhan Pamuk
Only a fool closes the door when the wolf is already inside the barn.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ambition leads you to great risk. But ambition never leads you to certain destruction." "Unless you're a fool.
~ Orson Scott Card
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
~ Oscar Wilde
He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him
~ Confucius
There is no description of a fool that you fail to satisfy.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise. He looked off to one side of it to see it the better. There was someone standing beside it. Then they were gone. There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're goin to die.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Listen Sut. We're painted into a corner anyways. I mean what if we was to just call up and say he died? I mean hell fire, you caint fool them guys. Them guys is doctors. They take one look at him and know for a fact he's been dead six months. How does it smell in there? It smells fuckin awful.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You say a man's got no brain, when he's a fool: and no heart, when he's mean; and no stomach when he's a funker. And when he's got none of that spunky wild bit of a man in him, you say he's got no balls. When he's sort of tame.
~ D.H. Lawrence
It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.
~ Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
~ Dale Carnegie
Elbert Hubbard said: "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.
~ Dale Carnegie