Fool Quotes - Page 39

• We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Mirrors, Hair, Ideas

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• Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.

  Kate Chopin

  Love You, Writing, Trying

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.103, e-artnow

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• When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

  Pablo Neruda

  Intelligent, Show Me, Shows

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!

  Emile Zola

  Promise, Rogues, Violence

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• You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

  Anton Chekhov

  Taken, Thinking, Men

  "About Love and Other Stories". Book by Anton Chekhov (p. 4), June 10, 2004.

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• It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Wicked, World, Trouble

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “JANE OF LANTERN HILL (Children’s Book Classic): Including the Memoirs of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.124, e-artnow

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• Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

  Knut Hamsun

  Giving, Ordinary, Way

  Knut Hamsun (2011). “Mysteries”, p.33, Souvenir Press

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• ... 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

  Men, Fearless, Battle

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• Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool.

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Kissing, Blue

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• Fools fight; winners think.

  Karen Chance

  Fighting, Thinking, Winner

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.457, Penguin

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• I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.

  Mitch Albom

  Hurt, Voice, Doe

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• I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.

  Julie Garwood

  Children, Giving Up, Greatest Treasure

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.439, Simon and Schuster

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• Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up

  John Howard Griffin

  Errors, Scripture, Passages

  John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.127, Wings Press

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• A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Airplane, Novelists

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• Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Children, Men, Age

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.416, Macmillan

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• I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your councils. I—' 'No. The Phthians will not care. And the others can talk all they like. I will still be Aristos Achaion.' Best of the Greeks. 'Your honor could be darkened by it." 'Then it is darkened.' His jaw shot forward, stubborn. 'They are fools if they let my glory rise or fall on this.

  Madeline Miller

  Fall, Sleep, Greek

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• I've got a hangover!" "No, you hit your head on the floor," Sophie said. Howl rose up on his hands and knees with a scramble. "I can't stay," he said. "I've got to rescue that fool Sophie." "I'm here!" Sophie shook his shoulder. "But so is Mis Angorian! Get up and do something about her!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hangover, Hands, Rose

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• I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

  Fiona Apple

  Running, Pride, Sea

  Song: Sleep To Dream, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

  Jess Walter

  Mother, Men, Things In Life

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• Velvet looks horrified. “If you are fool enough to address King R’jan, you will do it thus and in no other manner! ‘My King, Liege, Lord, and Master, your servant begs you grant it leave to speak.’” “Wow. Totally delusionary there.” “Good luck with that,” Ryodan says. “She doesn't beg to speak, or do anything else. You can lock her up, down, and sideways and it’s never going to happen.” I beam at him. I had no idea he thought so highly of me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Good Luck, Ideas

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1735, Dell

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• When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Young, Wraps

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.' Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Regret, Thinking

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.275, A&C Black

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• Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That’s never happened to me before, and I’m not sure it’ll ever happen again. I’ve never been in love with anyone before you came along — not real love anyway…not like this. And I’d be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Fighting, Missing

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• Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Wise, People, Dangerous

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• The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Thinking, Way

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