Fool Quotes - Page 9

• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Stupid, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau, Richard Dillman (1987). “Thoreau's comments on the art of writing”

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• The fool knows after he has suffered.

  Hesiod

  Stupidity, Knows

  Hesiod (1991). “My Brother's Killer”, p.45, University of Michigan Press

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• The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

  Benito Mussolini

  Time, Blood, Mosquitoes

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• Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

  Gene Brown

  Fools Day, Fool Proof, April

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• That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

  David D. Burns

  Stupid, Peculiar, Bad Mood

  David D. Burns (1999). “The Feeling Good Handbook”, Plume Books

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• Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  George W. Bush's remarks on teaching American history and civic education at East Literature Magnet School in Nashville, Tennessee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 17, 2002.

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• A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, May, Want

  Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.201, New Canadian Library

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• It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Goes On, Charming, Glamorous

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• Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, May, Modesty

  Jonathan Swift (1843). “Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published”, p.836

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• The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

  Earl Wilson

  Funny, Witty, Money

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• The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Literature, Months

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

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• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Fools Day, Doubt, April Fools

  Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside

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• The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Wise

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• Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Education, Teaching, Knowledge

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 322

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• A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

  Roald Dahl

  Freedom, Stupid, Daze

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin

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• I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

  Charles Darwin

  Motivational, Science, Theory Of Evolution

  "Got a problem? Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt can help" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.

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• The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Long, World

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Forgiveness, God

  In the Clearing (1962) "Cluster of Faith"

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• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

  Hugh Jackman

  Party, Kids, Years

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jun 18, 2014

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• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Wise, Dream

  In William Cooke 'Life of Samuel Foote' (1805) vol. 2, p. 154

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• If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Bullying, Stupid, Inspiration

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

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