Fool Quotes - Page 24

• Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

  Robert Fulghum

  Fun, Enough, Consistently

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• Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

  Thomas Fuller

  Rainy Day, Weather, Discourse

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• The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wise, Travel, Men

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• I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Stupid, Support, Middle East

  "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, 1987.

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• Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2909, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

  David Gerrold

  Love, Dream, Memories

  David Gerrold (2014). “A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two”, p.98, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Merit, Fortune

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• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Running, Men, Risk

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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Wisdom, Self, Doubt

  The Blithedale Romance ch. 2 (1852)

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• My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

  Salma Hayek

  Girl, Sweet, Play

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• I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

  Levon Helm

  Fun, Rewards, I Can

  FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Sep 02, 2014

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• When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

  Levon Helm

  Band, Calling, Records

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• Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, President, Enough

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• Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Wise, Men, Way

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.114, Reprint Services Corporation

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• You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

  Whitney Houston

  Home, Night, People

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• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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• I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Thinking, Vanity

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 84), 1997.

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• With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

  Hugh Jackman

  Kids, People, Age

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• I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

  Joshua Jackson

  Hate, Stress, Stupid

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

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• I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.

  Penn Jillette

  Skills, Television, Littles

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

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• I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

  Billy Joel

  Men, Thinking, Rejection

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• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  Jack Kemp

  Feet, Would Be, Metamorphosis

  "In New Role, Kemp Fights With His Past Over Ideology" by B. Drummond Ayres Jr., www.nytimes.com. August 15, 1996.

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• Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

  Dean Koontz

  Courage, Giving, Desire

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

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• I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

  NeNe Leakes

  Successful, Reality, Guests

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