Quotes and Sayings About Fool
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Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.
-- Abd-ru-shinSource : Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press
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A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.
-- Abdul Kalam -
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation
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He who represents himself has a fool for a client
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
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Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.
-- Adam Savage -
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Never call a man a fool; borrow from him
-- Addison MiznerSource : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”
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If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
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The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
-- Agatha Christie -
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
-- Al Bernstein -
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
-- Al Bernstein -
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
-- Al Pacino -
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Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
-- Alan BrennertSource : Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i”, p.205, Macmillan
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At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
-- Alexander MacLaren -
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
-- Alexander Pope -
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
-- Alexander Pope -
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
-- Alexander Pope -
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The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.
-- Alexander SuvorovSource : "Nauka pobezhdat" by Alexander Suvorov, 1806.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
-- Alexandre Dumas