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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
— Bill Vaughan
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".
— Paul Goodman
Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.
— Vernor Vinge
You guys think you fooled me in the beginning," she rasps. "You were only fooling yourself.
— Nyrae Dawn
I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.
— Iain Banks
Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.
— Cortney S. Warren
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.
— James Surowiecki
I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Lie to yourself if you want, but you're not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn't really
want it. — Steve Maraboli
want it. — Steve Maraboli
I wonder how it is that I'm fooling so many people, I'm doing one of the most stupid things in the world ... and people seem to be falling for it.
— Cindy Sherman
The tiny match we've been fooling with just set off an explosion.
— Veronica Larsen
Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.
— Linda Ellerbee
The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.
— Charlie Munger
No man was ever taken to hell by a woman unless he already had a ticket in his pocket or at least had been fooling around with timetables.
— Rex Stout
You came along and changed everything. I don't want to be some guy you're fooling around with anymore, Rylann. I want to be with you all the way.
— Julie James
But when I failed, I convinced myself that the failures were evidence of the "real" me, and the successes were the "fake" me fooling people.
— Megyn Kelly
If you're not able to laugh inside a sex shop,
then you probably shouldn't be there.
I mean, they don't call it fooling around for nothing. — David Levithan
then you probably shouldn't be there.
I mean, they don't call it fooling around for nothing. — David Levithan
You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.
— Richard Brautigan
I had reached a level of sophistication at which I could know I was fooling myself and still fool myself.
— Wendell Berry
Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
No. Forget it. You're only fooling yourself." "About what?" "About anything being worth a damn. It's dust, lady, all of it, dust and blood.
— Ayn Rand
I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
— Dominic Monaghan
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
— Nicole Krauss
If you have to use the words, "deep down" all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.
— Nyrae Dawn
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
— Joey Skaggs
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.
— Sherwood Anderson
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
— George Galloway
If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.
— Tom Wolfe
Hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently
— Paulo Coelho
If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait.
— Amy Bloom
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
— C.S. Lewis
I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
— Penn Jillette
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.
— Greil Marcus
You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
— Don Roff
Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled
— Dan Quayle
I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
— Booth Tarkington
People don't practice their smiles nearly enough, so when they most need to look happy they're not fooling anyone.
— Chuck Palahniuk
You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.
— John Carroll Lynch
They're fooling themselves," I say. "It's better to deal with your shit head on. Life doesn't get better if you look away.
— Ann Aguirre
She thought: I love him. Like telling herself something and hoping she believed it.
— Jack Skillingstead
writing is a craft, not an art, and that the man who runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself.
— William Zinsser
Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.
— Saul Perlmutter
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.
— Mark Vonnegut
You're fooling yourself if you think I don't have those feelings for you, Tristan. I've fallen in love with you.
— R.K. Lilley
When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business ... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.
— Otis Redding
I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.
— Janice Dickinson
You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
— Joseph Stalin
When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.
— Fuminori Nakamura
Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Stevia does something funny to the chemistry of my mouth. There's no fooling a taste bud, in my experience.
— Jonathan Franzen
The Machiavelli of the 20th century will be an advertising man, his Prince, a textbook of the art and science of fooling all the people all the time.
— Aldous Huxley
Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
— Victor Borge
We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.
— Joe Miller
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
— James Connolly
The truth may hurt, but fooling yourself will enslave you.
— Charles F. Glassman
Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!
— H. Beam Piper
A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.
— Tommy Rettig
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.
— Anthony Liccione
It's inevitable, Willa. We are inevitable. When you stop fooling yourself, come find me.
— Tessa Bailey
I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.
— Lola Alvarez Bravo
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
— Marilyn Monroe
Jack Bauer is fooling his audience, but he's not fooling me.
— Craig Lancaster