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• To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wise, Philosophical, Math

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• The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

  Michael Korda

  Doe, World, Appearance

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• April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fools Day, Months, April

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.13, 谷月社

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• It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Optimistic, Dreamer

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

  James Huneker

  Wisdom, Stupid, Knowledge

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Money, Business, Stupid

  "The Stevenson Wit" edited by Bill Adler, 1965.

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

  George Santayana

  Men, Laughing, Savages

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• Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Science

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 26 (1884)

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• Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

  Dean Koontz

  Humanity, Parades, Twirling

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.73, Bantam

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• In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

  Jonathan Swift

  School, Men, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.121

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• Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Happiness, Strong, Atheist

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• When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

  Russell Baker

  Clever, Two, Car

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• The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wise, Wisdom, Intelligent

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5029, Delphi Classics

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• There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

  Diogenes

  Wise, Sweet, Men

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• You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

  Joseph E. Levine

  Business, Stupid, People

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• There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  Samuel Pepys

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  'Diary' 25 December 1665

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• For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, God, Time

  Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)

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• Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Doors, Threshold

  Havelock Ellis (1930). “Fountain of Life”

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• The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they
  move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs.
  But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up,
  but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from
  His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Growing Up, Children, Moving

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Love Stories”, p.136, The Floating Press

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• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  Don Van Vliet

  Animal, Night, Desert

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• The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

  John Ciardi

  Funny, Umpires, America

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• No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thinking, World, Satisfaction

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