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The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.
The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote - and I!
What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.
I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself
Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.
And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
It is very difficult to play beside Messi and whoever understands it any other way is a fool.
If you want to reduce the rats, use the cats! If you want to reduce the fools, use the books!
Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!
I would be a fool to say I enjoyed being in borstal, but when I was there I had a great time.
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Ali was actually able to fool some people into thinking that Foreman was actually a white man.
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.