Fool Quotes - Page 5

• Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Courage, Failure, Humility

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

  Frank Wedekind

  Art, Knowing, Creative

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• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Clever, Love Life, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.345, Princeton University Press

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• Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Humor, Fools Day

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• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Success, Carpe Diem

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

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• I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspiring, Honesty

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Life, Song

  "Luther's Works: Table talk".

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• A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

  Larry Niven

  Protect, Capable, Educated Fools

  "Ringworld" by Larry Niven, Del Rey Mass Market Paperback, (p. 96), 1970.

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• The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.1053, Penguin

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• People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, People, Devil

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• He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Hope, Despair

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• He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Funny, Wisdom, Intelligence

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nature, Mistake, Philosophical

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• Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

  Voltaire

  Knavery, Knaves

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• He who hesitates is a damned fool.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

  Thomas Shadwell

  Fools Day, Haste, World

  'A True Widow' (1679) act 3, sc. 1

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• I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

  Leon Spinks

  Education, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

  Thomas Tusser

  Money, Italian, Taxation

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  No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

  Bob Hope

  Witty, Party, Two

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• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

  Barry Goldwater

  Business, Stupid, Men

  Attributed to Barry Goldwater in: Conference Board, Across the board. Vol. 15. p. 74, 1978.

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• However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Stupidity, Bigs, Bigger

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• To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Clever, Men, Political

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• I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Giving, Stupidity, Body

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1919-1920”, Oxford University Press, USA

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