– and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools – guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus – THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
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A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. WILLIAM COWPER It was hard to feel the remotest sympathy for any of the different fools she'd been. As opposed to t... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Her mother sneered. “Then you are a fool.” “Good. I’ve become rather fond of fool... MARISSA MEYER Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-c... DALE CARNEGIE Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says ... G. K. CHESTERTON If ever you should have an epiphany – and I think you know what I’m talking about – latch onto... JAMES BERNARD FROST You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at ... MARIE LU If you never see a fool You'll always be happy. The one who keeps company with fool... ANONYMOUS Great Men & Fools do often me InspireBut the Greater Fool the Greater Liar. WILLIAM BLAKE We're all fools...all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool ... RAY BRADBURY We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, ... RAY BRADBURY Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to ... ANDREW ASHLING Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they... SOCRATES Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding ... ROBERT BENCHLEY Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a... ROBERT BENCHLEY Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compoundi... ROBERT BENCHLEY We're all kind of God's fools. The process is going to make fools out of all of us, I think: fools i... JOHN CUSACK Do not let anyone steer you off the path of your dreams, even if they call you a fool. Those who dis... WILLIAM BANDAK Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? ORHAN PAMUK Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. EDWARD YOUNG Wise men and fools cannot exist without the other. If there are no wise men, there are no fools, and... SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest me... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know... WILLIAM ALEXANDER Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with it's just compounding t... ROBERT BENCHLEY People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are... BODHIDHARMA But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human ... THORNTON WILDER The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodo... DAVID KIRK Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them. CRISS JAMI All men are fools, and all men are knights where women are concerned. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. ELBERT HUBBARD The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and... HENRIK IBSEN The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fool... AGATHA CHRISTIE Politics to me was the whining of an old braggart too proud to admit his faults and too vain to try ... ADHISH MAZUMDER I know it's hard for them to put up with fools like me sometimes. The best ones are the ones who can... KURT THOMPSON Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool. CHINESE PROVERBS Learned fools exceed all fools GERMAN PROVERB It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r... WILL DURANT It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r... WILLIAM J. DURANT I pity the people who hated the opposite sex, I've no idea what they done to them but I still won't ... J C A ROWE Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear... ARMISTEAD MAUPIN It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them ... WILL DURANT One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all. BALTASAR GRACIAN We are all fools in love JANE AUSTEN I tell you the world is full of fools and only fools call each other fools. VIKRANT PARSAI There will always be fools in this world, the key, as an honorable man, is to do as much good as you... MICHAEL RAYSH You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fo... ABRAHAM LINCOLN It was April Fools' Day. We were sending out an SOS to let people know we were in trouble. They must... JEANO CAMPANARO Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. GEORGE CHAPMAN Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools. GEORGE CHAPMAN Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. GEORGE CHAPMAN I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools. THOMAS HOBBES The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. LARRY NIVEN You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot... ABRAHAM LINCOLN But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex t... ROBERT BURNS You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN A fool, but an honest fool, you remain, Peregrin Took. Wiser ones migth have done worse in such a pa... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt. MARK TWAIN Only fools are positive MOE HOWARD It is success that colours all in life,
Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. THALES OF MILETUS I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village: ‘There are... FRANZ KAFKA Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise,... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you ca... PHINEAS T. BARNUM Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. FRANK DANE This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE live by the rules or don't live at all ?
why life has any rules ? just to fool us fools ?
Can't esca... GRZ DZ How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink o... OLIVE SCHREINER Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hoaxes are nothing new. News media isn't hard to fool. It's fun to fool and people like to mess with... HANK GREEN Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fin... MARIE LU Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side. CLAUDE MCDONALD Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slav... GEORGE GORDON BYRON Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slav... LORD BYRON Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. DOUG LARSON No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclud... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON ... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – pe... NORMAN FRIEDMAN Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fill... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Imagination cannot make fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only... BLAISE PASCAL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES
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FEYNMAN The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ... RICHARD CARMONA One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our... RICHARD BACH The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. RICHARD CECIL From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business... RICHARD BRANSON I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. RICHARD WAGNER There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th... RICHARD O'BRIEN I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ... RICHARD AVEDON Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well. RICHARD LEAKEY I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know. RICHARD BACH Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. RICHARD BACH Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. RICHARD BACH