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"When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it."
Ilka Chase
"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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"I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools."
Jack Black
"I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools."
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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
"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."
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"Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
"Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
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"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."
Charles de Secondat
"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."
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"But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so."
Donald Cargill
"But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so."
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"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."
Steve Cropper
"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."
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"However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him."
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
"However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him."
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"The fool knows after he's suffered."
Hesiod
"The fool knows after he's suffered."
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"The fool inherits, but the wise must get."
William Cartwright
"The fool inherits, but the wise must get."
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"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
Roger Mudd
"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
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"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."
Felicity Kendal
"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."
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"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer."
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"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."
Moliere
"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."
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"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
Jean de la Bruyere
"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."
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"The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?"
Thomas Chalmers
"The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?"
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"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."
Hunter S. Thompson
"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."
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"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."
Robert E. Sherwood
"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."
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"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."
Anna Jameson
"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."
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"But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role."
Sean Hayes
"But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role."
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"I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself."
Denis Thatcher
"I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself."
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"Silence is the wit of fools."
Anatole France
"Silence is the wit of fools."
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"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."
Alfred Sutro
"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."
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"Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools."
William Lamb Melbourne
"Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools."
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"Fools are more to be feared than the wicked."
Queen Christina
"Fools are more to be feared than the wicked."
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"You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer."
Nile Rodgers
"You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer."
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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."
Josh Billings
"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."
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"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."
Minna Antrim
"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."
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"Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools."
Taylor Caldwell
"Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools."
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"Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool."
Michael Reed
"Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool."
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"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
Norman Rockwell
"I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!"
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"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future."
David Gerrold
"I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future."
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"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
Carl Jung
"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
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"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
Voltaire
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
Sidney Hook
"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
Anne Rice
"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
William Shakespeare
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
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"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."
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"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
Lord Byron
"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
Voltaire
"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
George Santayana
"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
Michel de Montaigne
"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
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"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."
W. Somerset Maugham
"It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is."
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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
Horace
"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
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"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
Samuel Butler
"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
Thomas Fuller
"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
Samuel Butler
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
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