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Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. — Charles Churchill

My dear imaginary Captain MacKenzie, you are not real and never will be. I, however, am a true and eternal fool.
Here, have a drawing of a snail. — Tessa Dare

A fool is always pleased with what he says, and, besides, he always says more than he needs to. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell. — P. J. O'Rourke

Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!' — Emil Zatopek

A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. — G.K. Chesterton

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly. — William Shakespeare

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm a fool.
At least i'm a self aware fool. — Colleen Hoover

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies. — John Dryden

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking? — Mark Twain

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. — Benjamin Franklin

I can learn to pity a fool as I'm the worst of all
And I can't stop feeling sorry for myself — Fall Out Boy

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin

If it rushed he'd slash. Stabbing is a fool's move, the blade gets caught. Ben knew that quick slashes could fend off even a big hound or a boar. — Jonathan Maberry

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. — Dogen

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool. — Zhuangzi

A wise man can be a fool in love. — Chetan Bhagat

As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything. — Anna Olson

A wise man rules his passions, fool obeys them. — Publilius Syrus

Nothing wrong with looking like a fool if what you are doing is far from foolish. — Paulo Coelho

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools. — Brigham Young

A fool can always find a greater fool who admires him. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard. — Joan Rivers

To be looked upon as a fool by an idiot is a true connoisseur's delight. — Georges Courteline

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools. — Eric Gill

The fool supply was controlled... — John Steinbeck

I was a fool for love, I was a fool. — Tegan Quin

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.] — Horace

How easy love makes fools of us. — Moliere

This is the Torture Room. But don't let the name fool you. This is a tent, not a room. — Jeremy C. Shipp

Don't let the pretty lights fool you. The most dangerous things in the world are beautiful. — Melissa Andrea

You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith. — Julia Cameron

Silence is the friend of the fool. — Marjorie Swift Doering

An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool. — Kevin Hart

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company. — Gautama Buddha

A man who will not listen carefully to advice honestly given is a fool. Of course, a man who blindly takes any advice he receives is a bigger fool. — Tad Williams

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war. — John McCain

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. — Richard Stallman

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. — Robin Hobb

The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong. — William Shakespeare

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead. — Robin Hobb

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? — Alec Guinness

A fool always finds something to complain about, and a wise person always finds something to appreciate. — Debasish Mridha

There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late. — Toby Keith

Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years' time. — Idries Shah

Fool me once; fool me twice; but shame on me if you fool me thrice. — Nabil N. Jamal

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. — Erica Jong

Fools do not acknowledge God,
the proud reject Him,
the wise embrace Him,
and the righteous worship Him. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What this situation needs is heroin; any fool can see that. — Anonymous

Anyone who doesn't think the imagination can kill is a fool. — Stephen King

Look down at me and you see a fool,
Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself. — Charles Manson

We never accept the unaccepted, that which makes us uncomfortable. We love to ignore things till they can no longer be ignored. — Sandeep Sharma

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons. — Joseph Cannon

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. — James Gibbons Huneker

Anyone without spiritual aspirations is a fool — Soseki Natsume

Its better to be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. — William Jevning

The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote ... and me! — Simon Bolivar

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. — Neil Gaiman

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind. — Sri Chinmoy

That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool. — Charles Boyer

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby. — George Bernard Shaw

Who are a little wise the best fools be. — John Donne

Love, endure, persist ... Everything will return to you, innocent fool! — Raheel Farooq

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me. — Johnny Mercer

If you decide to help someone
And you expect something in return
Don't fool yourself...
That's "business", not KINDNESS. — Jose N. Harris

Battles I lose none I make crews run
I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one — Big L

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. — John Cheever

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. — Confucius

The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money. — Gautama Buddha

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it. — Albert Einstein

A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma. — Keshia Chante

the wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the fool 'needs' countless things but can make good use of none of them. — Donald J. Robertson

Whatever you do, act as if you meant to do it even if you're sure you look like a fool. — Tracy Anne Warren

[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice. — Stewart Copeland

Shut up, you fool ... Really. I'm running out of things to throw at you. — Kale Lawrence

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you — Leonard Cohen

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will. — Samuel Tuke

There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer. — George Polya

None are so busy as the fool and the knave. — John Dryden

The easiest person to fool is yourself. — Richard P. Feynman

When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had. — Ambrose Bierce

What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool. — Rumi

Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip. — Albert Einstein

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be. — Philip James Bailey

It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar — Christopher Paolini

I'm sorry, I said, I'm really sorry.
I stood up in a cafe and screamed
I'm in love,
and now you've made a fool of me ... — Charles Bukowski

A fool is someone who enjoys calling other people crazy before they check out their own insanity in the mirror ... first. — Timothy Pina

Only a fool would attack us. — Vyacheslav Molotov

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on. — George W. Bush

What the wise acquire easily fools only acquire miraculously. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! — Marquis De Sade

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool. — Mario Andretti

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction. — Debbie Macomber

I am not a fool. This is why Olga was so distraught - because I teetered the line, and most times my left foot was a paperweight clinging to hell. — Rebekah Armusik

Business after all is a form of warfare; you bring all your available weapons to bear. If you don't you're a fool. ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. — Jack London

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing. — Laurie R. King

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. - Einstein — Kate Messner