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Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened. — Maria V. Snyder

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other. — Ayn Rand

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. — James Russell Lowell

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

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

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death. — Jacoby Shaddix

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

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

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness? — Avicenna

A smile is the best way to deal with difficult situations. Even if it's a fake one. Used properly, you can fool anyone with them. — Sai

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

The world is full of annoyances, none more infuriating than a fool with a valid point. — K.J. Parker

Kill me?' The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. 'I do the killing, fool! — Joe Abercrombie

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man. — William Shakespeare

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

procrastination in the face of poor performance is a fool's remedy. — Marcus Buckingham

The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The fool supply was controlled... — John Steinbeck

Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil ... — Roberto Giobbi

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again? — Alice Hoffman

I can't bullshit you. In all this time, you're the only person I can't fool. It's like you're bullshit-proof. — H.M. Ward

The fool wanders, a wise man travels. — Thomas Fuller

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them. — Pearl S. Buck

A fool's a man who knows better and does the thing anyway, his father's voice said. — Peter V. Brett

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong. — John Prine

I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit. — Charles Macaulay

Custom is the law of fools. — John Vanbrugh

I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool. — Anne Bishop

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. — Jean De La Bruyere

My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is? — C. Fern Cook

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool? — John Locke

If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. — Woodrow Wilson

Only a fool would make the bed every day. — Nancy Spain

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool. — William Blake

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance. — Juvenal

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! — Charles Ogden

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools. — Og Mandino

The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that. — Bill Nye

The man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client. — Joseph Hansen

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. — Anonymous

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. — Nicholas Sparks

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool. — James Blunt

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Don't look like a fool with your pants on the ground! — Larry Platt

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. — Carl Van Vechten

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. — Haruki Murakami

Silence is the best response to a fool ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it. — Frederick Buechner

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. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool. — William Blake

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. — Basil Bunting

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer. — Bryant H. McGill

Never argue with a fool, people might not notice the difference — Niq Mhlongo

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Jim Morrison

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt — Dave Sim

Don't let my appearance fool you, Penryn. I am not human. The Daughters of Men are forbidden to Angels. — Susan Ee

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

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

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

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

Flattery makes fools of the best of us. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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