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As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.
— Alain De Botton
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Fashion, ah yes. A fool's game, if I am not mistaken.
— K.F. Breene
I'd not taken you for a fool. Silent yes, but a fool, no.
— Erika Swyler
Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let him resolutely pursue a solitary course; there is no fellowship with the fool.
— Gautama Buddha
Though through all his life a fool associates with a wise man, he yet understands not the Dharma, as the spoon, the flavor of soup.
— Gautama Buddha
This is why I hate things like love, not only it will turn me into a fool, it would also turn me into a complete failure.
— Yoshiki Nakamura
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.
— Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.
— Bob Marley
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
— William Drummond
If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being. — Jerry Andrus
Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.
— Catherynne M Valente
The Path of the Heart is the Hardest to take, for the Heart will not Fool, and the Heart will not Fake.
— A.B. Curtiss
I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
— Muammar Al-Gaddafi
A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'd have been a fool not to have thought of it, and a greater fool not to have thought better of it.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
— Charles Caleb Colton
But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist. — William Shakespeare
A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that ...
— George Meredith
Only a fool would be fighting them, my queen, and though I am a fool, I'm not that foolish. (Lutian)
— Kinley MacGregor
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
— Charles Portis
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
— Andrew Carnegie
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
— Mark Twain
Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
— Anderson Cooper
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
— Marcus Valerius Martial
If ever a fool utters all kinds of insults against you,The best bet is to not respond at all. — Miguel El Portugues
Because only the greatest fool alive would rebuff a love such as yours. And I should like to think I am not as stupid as that.
— Catherine Miller
Tell me I'm a fool. I would not know how to believe it.
— Jon Anderson
A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.
— Paulo Coelho
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese proverb
— Kevin E. Kruse
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
— Confucius
A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.
— Rick Hilles
The man who feels fear without cause is a fool; but the man is twice a fool who does not feel fear when there is cause.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
Would you think me such a fool that you could be here, in this city, this building, this room and me not know about it?
— Jessica Shirvington
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
— Robert A. Heinlein
For a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.
— L. Frank Baum
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
— Philip Massinger
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
— William Wycherley
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
— Joy Davidman
He who poses as a fool is not a fool.
— Robert Greene
For of course if nobody agrees with you, how are you to know youre not a fool?
— George Bernard Shaw
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
— Elbert Hubbard
To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
— Duke Of Wellington
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
— Donald Tusk
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
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.
— Richard P. Feynman
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.
— Gautama Buddha
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
— Angelina Jolie
It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.
— Jeff Goldblum
This is the Torture Room. But don't let the name fool you. This is a tent, not a room.
— Jeremy C. Shipp
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
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
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
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
— Jack London
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.
— Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly
I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Science is a way for us to not fool ourselves.
— Richard P. Feynman
Set a church clock wrong to fool the devil, my mother always told me. But in this case I suspect the devil is not fooled.Not for a minute. — Joanne Harris
Sir, don't make a bigger fool out of yourself because I promise you, if my car is not here when I leave service today ... just pray for rapture.
— Jevon L. Mack
This great purple butterfly,In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands. — William Butler Yeats
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
— Maya Angelou
A fool suffers, thinking,"I have children! I have wealth!"
One's self is not even one's own.
How then are children? How then is wealth? — Gautama Buddha
We all know a fool when we see one - but not when we are one.
— Arnold H. Glasow
Terak, you are not a fool. You are a great leader,
— Danielle Monsch
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
— William Blake
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
— Montesquieu
Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don't exist. It's a fine line to walk, but sympathy is not an art for the weak willed. He
— Patrick Rothfuss
Back to school to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.
— Adam Sandler