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Quotes About Fooling

It is not in truth very difficult to befool a man who does half the fooling himself.
~ A.E.W. Mason
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
~ Dominic Monaghan
COVID-19 pandemic is just a drama and no such virus exists as Corona. It is history's biggest fooling propaganda done to harass and oppress common people.
~ Probarb
The human capacity for self-delusion is apparently infinite – and if that is the case, how are we ever meant to know, except by existing in a state of absolute pessimism, that once again we are fooling ourselves?
~ Rachel Cusk
People ought to be one of two things, young or old. No ; what's the good of fooling? People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.
~ Dorothy Parker
What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.
~ Douglas Adams
The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.
~ Charlie Pierce
This is true, and defines the lostness of the grief struck. You constantly report things, so that the loved one 'knows'. You may be aware that you are fooling yourself (though, if aware, are at the same time not fooling yourself), yet you continue. And everything you do, or might achieve thereafter, is thinner, weaker, matters less. There is no echo coming back; no texture, no resonance, no depth of field.
~ Julian Barnes
Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled
~ Dan Quayle
I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
~ Iain Banks, The Bridge
Richard Feynman said, 'Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
~ David Deutsch
Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
~ William Saroyan
The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that would have gotten rid of him.
~ Lawrence Eagleburger
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.
~ Rex Stout
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.
~ Robert Frost
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
~ Gene Tunney
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.
~ Robert Frost
Our system of class prejudice is the cleverest piece of self-frustrating daftness since the Tower of Babel, it benefits nobody but a few at the top. We fool ourselves into fooling others into fooling ourselves even more.
~ Alasdair Gray
Did you mean it when you said it? Did you fall in love with me? Because I finally realized that I fell hard for you. I was fooling myself in not admitting it when I had you with me.
~ Jet Mykles
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
~ Angela Carter
All this is only fooling, for if it is true that every man must work for his own salvation, then all the prophecies about the future of the world are only valuable and allowable as a recreation, or a joke, like playing bowls or cards.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.
~ Hugh Jackman
I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.
~ Janice Dickinson
The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.
~ Columbus Short