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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• I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Girl

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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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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• 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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• Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Love You, Love Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales”, Xist Publishing

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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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• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  John Dryden

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Patriot

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 968

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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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• 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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• A fool must now and then be right, by chance

  William Cowper

  Truth, Humorous, Intellectual

  "Conversation" l. 96 (1782)

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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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• 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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• 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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• To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Risk, Literature

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

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• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Humor

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 8, 1595.

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• To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

  William Penn

  Stupid, Men, Flattery

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.122

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