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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.
To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.
Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much
I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself.
The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.
You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.
After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.
My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.
Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.
Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.
Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.
You have to leave all your options open. And if you don't leave your options open, you're a fool.
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.
Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.
There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
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.
nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"