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“If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!”

Ifs Want Book Use Fool Cat Rats

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.”

People Ends States United United States Issues Crime Ignorance Fool Penalties Death Penalty Phony

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was.”

Ifs Important Ends Class Comedy Teacher Minutes Fronts Figures Fool Smart Grades The End Of The Day Routine Really Smart And At The End Of The Day Seventh Grade

Author:Jim Carrey

“You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.”

Thinking Knows Song Fall Asks Answers Fool Falling In Love Obvious

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.”

Doe Self Facts Dangerous Fool Satisfied Treated Aggressive Scoundrels

Book:Letters Papers from Prison

Source: Letters Papers from Prison

“What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.”

People Want Moments Young Life Is Hate Accepting Fool I Hate Sexy Contests Peaches Be Young Hotter Beauty Contest

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.”

Fool Mercy Infinite Providence Scoundrels

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I am a fool. That is well known.”

Wells Known Fool Well Known

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.”

“A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.”

“I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!”

Thinking Trying Fool Perceive Nerves Worthwhile

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools”

Earth Heaven Planets Fool Covered

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”

Suffering Grows Walks Wise Fool Harm Companion

Author:Solomon

“There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.”

Two Practice Fool Understood Communicate Reports Secrecy Readiness

Author:Norm MacDonald

“I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.”

Believe Kind Persons Mother I Believe Steps Happened Fool Capable Killing Opening Remarks Hesitation

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.”

People Ifs Long Has Beens Done Might Fun Steps Willing Fool Get Away Might Have Been Make People Smile

Author:Richard Branson

“The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.”

Men Wells Made Stills Law Purpose Answers Failing Fool Authority Hatred Foundation Credit Vain Equity Mystic

Book:The Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Montaigne

“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.”

People Home Night Fool Straight Up

Author:Whitney Houston

“The warrior acts, the fool reacts.”

Author:Dan Millman

“The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.”

People Fool Obvious

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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

Ifs Men Believe Stills Dies I Believe Fool Sitting Pennies

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.”

Age Fool Patriot

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.”

Passion Fool Foolish

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.”

Book:A Cynic Looks at Life

Source: A Cynic Looks at Life

“A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.”

Ifs Left President Realizing Chance Failing Position Fool Kings Office Ministers Prime Prime Minister

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.”

People May Stills Voice Cases Fool Hundred Devil Nine Fifty Forty Voice Of God

Book:Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison

Source: Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison

“No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.”

Ifs Men Giving May Sometimes Wise Teaching Taught Masters Fool Foolish

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.”

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.”

Ends Pain House Wise Fool Storm Tongue Secure Folly Quietness Brash

Book:The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae

Source: The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae

“It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.”

Thinking Men War Teach Plans Fool Lions

Book:The White Company

Source: The White Company

“Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.”

Men Doe Fool Waste Thrift Muddle

Book:Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches

Source: Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches

“We aren't lazy, overweight models. We work out and must maintain proportionate bodies for work. Plus models are curvy and fit. Don't let the scale fool you. Plus doesn't always equal unhealthy, just like skinny doesn't always equal healthy.”

Body Fool Fit Healthy Equal Models Work Out Scales Lazy Plus Skinny Unhealthy Overweight Curvy

Author:Liris Crosse

“There are people who follow me on Twitter and tell me how much they don't like me, how much they don't want me on the show, and that they hope I die. And it's not just about the character. They tell me how they've never liked Scott Foley, and that he's a stupid, white, plain-bread looking fool.”

People Want Character Shows Dies White Stupid Fool Bread Like Me Want Me Follow Me Don't Like Me

Author:Scott Foley

“Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.”

Men Reason Wise Mankind Fool Miserable Reason Why

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."”

Thinking Men Firsts Steps Mankind Fool Moon Giants Soil Leap Astronaut Armstrong Small Steps Short Sighted

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.”

Children Matter Fool Brave Range Damn

Book:The Puppet Masters

Source: The Puppet Masters

“As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.”

Feels Doe Hard Used Suffering Poor Rich Hard Work Fool Used To Be Multitudes Infamous

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.”

Men Way Heaven Wise Fool Research Abundance Exploits Ingenious

Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.”

Reason Imagination Wise Fool Glory Shame Wretched

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.”

Men Believe Made Pay Fool Inward

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.”

Ifs Men Believe Made Enough Fool

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools.”

People Thinking Wells Today House Fun Heard Television Fool Boast Fashionable Snobbish Eggheads

Author:Bennett Cerf

“Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.”

Ifs Fool Intelligent Appearing

Book:Warrior of the Light -

Source: Warrior of the Light -

“Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.”

Men Fool Stress Under Stress

Book:The Andromeda Strain

Source: The Andromeda Strain

“There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.”

Thinking Doe Streets Wall Fool Trade All Time Wrong Things

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.”

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.”

Should Wisdom Fool Wit Foolishness

Author:Elizabeth I

“To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.”

Men Firsts May Today Action Past Principles Doubt Fool Tomorrow Mark Consistent Civilized Refuge Consistency

Author:Hyman Rickover

“You have to use your mind n the NFL. Every player is smarter. Defensive backs bluff and disguise coverages to try to fool you.”

Trying Mind Use Player Fool Nfl Smarter Disguise Coverage Bluffs Defensive Backs

Author:Chad Ochocinco

“People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.”

People Giving Believe Looks Easy Fool Speech Victim Impression Underestimate Underestimate Me

Author:Edgerrin James