Fool Quotes - Page 2

• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Country, Believe

  Nods and Becks (1944) p. 74

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• Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.

  Yip Harburg

  Valentines Day, Stupid, Kissing

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• The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Funny, Life, Cute Love

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• Poems are made by fools like me,
  But only God can make a tree

  Joyce Kilmer

  Nature, Tree, Forests

  "Trees" l. 11 (1913)

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• Silence is the wit of fools.

  Anatole France

  Silence, Literature, Wit

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  How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Atheist, People

  "Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2". Book by Mark Twain (p. 302), 2013.

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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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• No one but a fool is always right.

  David Hare

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• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Leadership, Motivation

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• A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

  Richard Steele

  Pity, Objects, Flattered

  "Selectons from Steele's Contributions to the Tatler".

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• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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• I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

  Alan Coren

  Funny Inspirational, Humorous, Fools Day

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• Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

  Andrew Tobias

  People, Trying, Want

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• Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

  Charles Lamb

  Funny Inspirational, Spring, Fools Day

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• If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

  Desmond Bagley

  Education, College, Men

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• Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Practice, Political, Deception

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  God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

  Solomon

  God, Noses, Thumbs

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  The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Clever, Men, Needs

  Plain Tales from the Hills "Three and - An Extra" (1888)

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• I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Pigs, Firm

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• A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

  Moliere

  Education, Learning, Ignorance

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• The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Fools Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Taxation

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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