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Fool Quotes


"When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool."
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"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."


"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."


"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job."


"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."
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"To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's."


"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."


"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."


"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."


"My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere."


"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."
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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."


"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."


"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."


"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."


"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."


"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."


"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."


"To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool."


"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."


"A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."


"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."


"When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it."
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