Fool Quotes - Page 22

• Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Ocean, Able, Three Things

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• At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

  Alcuin

  Wise, Men, Stupid People

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• I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

  Maya Angelou

  Women's Health, Sides, My Own

  "Health & Happiness Heroes: Dr. Maya Angelou on Confidence, Tomato Soup & The Amazing Thing on Her Bucket List". Interview With Sarah Jio, www.glamour.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

  Maya Angelou

  Liars, Hypocrite, Writing

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• I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Believe, Men, Pennies

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

  David Bailey

  Educated, Educated Fools, Ifs

  The Scene Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 3, 2006.

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• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Nature, Stupid

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• For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion, Giving, Village Idiots

  "'Les Célibataires' ('A Bachelor's Establishment')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

  Lynda Barry

  Beautiful, Helping, Realizing

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• The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

  Bernard Baruch

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  School, Experience, Keep Going

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• Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Failure, Destiny, Tyrants

  Enlarged Devil's Dictionary (1967) p. 64

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• Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Color, White

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.618, Library of America

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• There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

  Josh Billings

  Change, Two, Comedy

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

  Bono

  Commitment, Equality, Ideas

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• The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Husband, Gun, Power

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Long Ago, Deceiving

  "What I know about men ..." by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2007.

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• Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Stupid, Silly, Happy Life

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• But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

  Donald Cargill

  Stupid, Thinking, Champion

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• Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

  John le Carre

  Literature, Language, Damn

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• I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Stupidity, Honest, Kind

  Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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• I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Blood, Hatred, Unconquerable Will

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Knaves, Deceived, Qualms

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

  Anton Chekhov

  Fake People, Psychology, Doe

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• Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

  Chris Christie

  Mom, Brother, Children

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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