Fool Quotes - Page 23

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  Harlan Coben

  Play, Perception, Lasts

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• Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religious Bigotry, Literature, Ghost

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.63

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• Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

  William Congreve

  Father, Glasses, Idlers

  William Congreve (1753). “The Works of Mr William Congreve...”, p.4

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• So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Ideas, Purpose, Study

  Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg Joachim Rhäticus (1971). “Three Copernican treatises: the Commentariolus of Copernicus, the Letter against Werner, the Narratio prima of Rheticus”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

  Bill Cosby

  Worry, Parent, Acting

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• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Wine, Reality

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• Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.

  Bobby Darin

  Love, Insecurity, Cover Ups

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• An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

  Nick Denton

  Party, College, Decision

  "Gawker's Nick Denton Explains Why Invasion of Privacy Is Positive for Society". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

  Janice Dickinson

  Liars, Cameras, Hey

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• If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Publish, Ifs

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• Despair is the conclusion of fools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Doubt, Despair, Conclusion

  Benjamin Disraeli, Earl Of Beacon The Earl of Beaconsfield (2010). “Novels and Tales by the Earl of Beaconsfield”, p.226, Wildside Press LLC

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• The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Military, Fit

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• The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.

  Snoop Dogg

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

  John Donne

  Love, Running, Sun

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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• Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

  John Dryden

  Love, Wise, Mind

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145

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• It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

  Will Durant

  Country, Time, People

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Women, Degrees, Charity

  The Observer Interview, 1990.

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• A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

  Elizabeth I

  Stupid, Past, Too Late

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• The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.89, Lulu.com

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• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Apology, Later In Life, Feet

  "The Crack-Up". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936.

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• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Humility, Stupidity

  "Sentimental Education". Book by Gustave Flaubert, 1869.

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• Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Names, Commoners, Rely

  "The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by C. Robertson, 1998.

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• It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

  E. M. Forster

  Fate, Agreement, Literature

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• By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

  Ron Fournier

  Suffering, President, Defense

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• The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

  Marie de France

  Thinking, World, Impress

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