Fool Me Quotes

• 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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• There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". Interview with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Doing You, May, Fool

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fools Day

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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• Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

  Orson Welles

  Girlfriend, Husband, Fool

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• My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

  Steve Cropper

  Running, Digital, Mixing

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• Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Men, Law

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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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• You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four

  Melanie

  Fool Me Once, Four, Thrice

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• I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

  Ricky Jay

  Feelings, Fool, Fooled

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

  Steve Carell

  Office, Fool Me Once, Three

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• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Tired, Men, Important

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books

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• Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

  Joseph Hall

  Wise, Men, Judging

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• You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

  George S. Kaufman

  Christmas, Business, Books And Movies

  "Fictional character: Fiorello". "A Night at the Opera", 1935.

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• Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

  John Zakour

  Fool Me Once, Mentor, Whiskey

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• As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

  Chuck Norris

  Together Again, America, Fool Me Once

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• The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Real, Secret

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)”, p.283, Random House

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• ...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

  Charles Darwin

  Hard Work, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When we talk about corruption, there's corruption on both sides of the border. That's what I think is interesting. I'm from Mexico, so when I see a Mexican portrayed in the American market on TV or films, you better do it right because you won't fool me. I'm sure no one really cares on this side of the border, if they get it right or not, but all the way from Mexico, to another 120 countries where the show goes, they will be able to tell the difference.

  Demian Bichir

  Country, Thinking, Differences

  Source: collider.com

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• Love is your master, for he masters you;
  And he that is so yoked by a fool
  Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Fool

  William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series”, p.140, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.

  Wesley Morris

  I Love You, Kindness, Noir

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• You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'' "No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line.

  Richelle Mead

  Cowboy, Vampire, Lines

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.449, Penguin

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• I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Tired, Men, Half

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Pay, Fool

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• So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Doctors, Practice

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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