Fool Quotes - Page 12

• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Life, Wise, Dream

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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 great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  Samuel Butler

  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

  Neil Gaiman

  Truth, Science, Speak

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

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• The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

  Akhenaton

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

  Archibald Alexander

  Mean, Blunders

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• The older a fool is, the worse he is.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Folly, Old Age

  "Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1727.

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• Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.166

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• Only fools make permanent decisions without knowledge.

  Mike Murdock

  Decision, Permanent

  Mike Murdock (1992). “The One-Minute Businessman's Devotional”, p.45, Wisdom International Inc

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• Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Young, Dies, Foolish

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• A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

  Confucius

  Wise, Philosophical, Men

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• When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

  Edward Teller

  Funny, Humor, Easy

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• Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, Foolish

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• Even a fool is wise after an event.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Events

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• If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Thinking, Looks

  "Ray Bradbury Is on Fire!". Interview with James Hibberd, www.salon.com. August 29, 2001.

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• A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivation, Anger

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.31, Tuttle Publishing

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• Whiskey don't make liars
  it just makes fools.

  James McMurtry

  Liars, Whiskey

  Song: Too Long in the Wasteland

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• It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Idiot

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• God can be seen
  Even by the poorest fool,
  But not by the self-styled,
  God-arguing
  Intellectual giants.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Intellectual, Mind

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• Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Animal, Talking, Strange

  Catherynne M. Valente (2015). “The Boy Who Lost Fairyland”, p.158, Macmillan

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• Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, He Man, Characteristics

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• Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wise, Men, Silent

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• Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

  Norm MacDonald

  Would Be, Flattery, Flatterer

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• A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

  Thomas Overbury

  Shadow, Flattery, Flatterer

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