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“The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.”

“We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.”

“I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.”

Looks Soul Lasts Lost Fool Adore Looking Good Adoration Complexion Adore You

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“How every fool can play upon the word!”

Play Fool Wit

Author:William Shakespeare

“I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play a couple of songs on guitar. You don't really need to be able to play to compose. There are many composers and arrangers who work out of their heads.”

Needs I Can Play Able Song Fool Couple Instruments Guitar Work Out Piano Composer

Author:Frankie Laine

“The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.”

Wise Poet Fool Standing Versions

Author:Eileen Myles

“There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.”

Thinking Stills Purpose Fool Hollywood Profit Driven Making Money Philanthropy

Author:Sydney Pollack

“When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.”

Enough Reality Happens Fool Lifetime Phones Vulnerable Phone Calls Quentin Tarantino

Author:Walton Goggins

“In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.”

Knows Problem Lying Guy Causes Fool

Author:Wyclef Jean

“He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.”

Doe Fool Doctors Astrology

Author:Hippocrates

“Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.”

May Poor Teacher Fool Belive

Author:William Shakespeare

“The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.”

Men Home Wise Fool Traveled Better Off

Author:Rashi

“A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.”

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Author:David Gries

“Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions. The more you know about a book, the freer you can be to fool around. The less you know, the tighter you get.”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.”

People Long States Enough President United United States Fool

Book:Puckoon

Source: Puckoon

“I hate Mourinho. He's a fool.”

Hate Fool I Hate Mourinho

Author:Noel Gallagher

“A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.”

Knows Persons Differences Fool

Author:Andy Stanley

“I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.”

Ends Hurt Fool Getting Hurt

Author:Isaac Hanson

“Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.”

My Own Mistake Fool Cost Learn From Your Mistakes

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“Oh what fools we mortals are.”

Fool Mortals

Author:William Shakespeare

“Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.”

Different Results Fool Repeats Expecting

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.”

Soul Hate Passion Fool My Soul Live By

Book:The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville

Source: The Works of George Santayana: The sense of beauty. Poems. Lucifer. Overheard in Seville

“I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.”

Heart Fool Ridicule

Author:Ellis

“If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.”

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Author:Dick Cavett

“[They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.”

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Author:William of Conches

“It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.”

Men Want Fool Hot

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Seems Animal Fool Cat Psychics

Author:DeWitt Bodeen

“What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word.”

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Author:John Derbyshire

“To be a fool at the right time is also an art.”

Art Fool Right Time

Author:Aldous Huxley

“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.”

Self Feelings Laughing Risk Fool Reach Out Sentimental True Self Involvement Appearing Exposing

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“Not one song on the charts is being played naturally. But when you go see someone live it's special. Even though you can fool people, I know there are people out there who still play along to tapes.”

People Knows Stills Play Song Special Fool Tape Being Played

Author:Roger Glover

“Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.”

Important Stage Fool

Author:Bootsy Collins

“You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.”

People Knows House Fool Cost Shirts T Shirt Get Money

Author:DJ Khaled

“I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.”

Ifs Writing Two Matter Hours Morning Four One Thing Fool Bed No Matter What

Author:Kiese Laymon

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

Thinking Men Wish Fool Rejection Not Afraid Favourite Thinking Man

Author:Billy Joel

“Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time.”

Looks Country Political Games Fool Speculation Projection Taliban Short Time Kabul

Author:Eliza Griswold

“I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.”

Has Beens Care Fool Consequence Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Billy Joel

“I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people.”

People Thinking Way Feels Mean Different Suffering Choices Strange Like You Fool Caring Feel Good Irony Different Ways Software Life Choices Stop Caring Pleasing Others

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“Donald Trump is a fool, but he is not free to be a dangerous fool in Britian.”

Dangerous Fool Trump

Author:Jack Dromey

“I thought, giving Jeb Bush the benefit of the doubt all these years, that he was sitting, saying, what a numbnut, what an idiot. My brother's a fool. He's listening to these neocons that talked him into this war. Dad would have never done this.”

Giving Years War Done Doubt Brother Listening Fool Dad Benefits Sitting Idiot My Brother Benefit Of The Doubt

Author:Chris Matthews

“Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure.”

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Author:Rafael Correa

“It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.”

Giving Looks Body Faces Boys Feet Materials Like You Fool Directors Screens Damn Your Face Editors Dice Cinematographers

Author:William Mapother

“People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.”

People Funny Fool Devil Neighbor Neighbors And Friends

Author:Francis Bacon

“Silence is the virtue of fools.”

Silence Virtue Fool Luxury Silence Is

Author:Francis Bacon

“I never wanted it to get to this point. I had hoped that, by its own course, by the way the media covers politics, people would open their eyes and see who Donald Trump really is. But that, unfortunately, has not happened. The polls in the early states indicate that he's been able to fool a significant number of people into believing that he is something that he is not.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

Thinking Men Wisdom Happiness Differences Humility Fool Comparison Wisest Happiest Man

Author:Francis Bacon

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

Love Dream Love Is Wise Fool Folly Teenage Love Fools And Foolishness Fools And Wise Loved And Lost Cheesy Love

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I do not hope somebody breaks in. However, if they did, I pity them. I pity the fool that breaks into my house.”

Ifs House Break Fool Pity

Author:Amber Heard

“I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.”

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Author:Dan Bejar

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