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Fool Quotes
"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
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"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
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"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise."
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"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
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"You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere."
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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"In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen."
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
8
"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."
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"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."
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"To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's."
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"I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous."
6
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
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"We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast."
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"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
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"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."
6
"When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool."
Fool,
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"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."
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"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
5
"Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage."
5
"I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true."
Fool,
5
"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."
5
"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
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