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• A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

  Lord Acton

  Success, Wise, Time

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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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• 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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• A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Stupid, Drinking, Beer

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 June 1958

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• Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

  Edward Young

  Birthday, Wise, Fortune Cookie

  The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

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• I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

  Danny Kaye

  Stupid, Way, Born

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• Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Stupid People, Political

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Sep 29, 2011

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• Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

  Heinrich Heine

  Wise, Stupid, Men

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

  Pat Robertson

  Politics, Clergymen, Folly

  "Timeless wisdom of Mr. Dooley" by Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2004.

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• A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

  Leonard Maltin

  Christmas, Stories, Fool Proof

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• It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

  Marv Albert

  Confused, Objectivity, Negativity

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• A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Men, Principles, Honest

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• A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Men, Experiments

  In a letter from Maria Edgeworth to Sophy Ruxton, 9 March 1792: F. V. Barry (ed.) 'Maria Edgeworth: Chosen Letters' (1931)

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• No creature smarts so little as a fool.

  Alexander Pope

  Smart, Littles, Folly

  'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735) l. 83.

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• Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

  Martin Luther

  Song, Wine, Long

  Attributed; written in the Luther room in the Wartburg, but no proof exists of its authorship

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• The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
  'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
  The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Wise, Lying, Knowledge

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.139, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

  Adam Savage

  Trying, Fierce, Break

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• You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights

  Bob Barker

  Girl, Light, Dancing

  "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.

  Victor Pelevin

  Distance, Live Life, Book

  "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf". Book by Victor Pelevin, 2004.

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• Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

  Mason Cooley

  Made, Feels

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• A fool cannot hold his tongue.

  Plutarch

  Tongue

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.383

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• You never really see me acting a fool on TV.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Acting, Tvs

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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