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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
~By George S. Patton ~


Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
~By Golda Meir ~


Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
~By Robert Benchley ~


My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
~By Salma Hayek ~


Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
~By John Tillotson ~


Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
~By Francis I ~


A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
~By Douglas Adams ~


It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
~By Will Durant ~


You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
~By Tom Wilkinson ~


It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~


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


I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~


We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
~By Hugh Leonard ~


Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
~By Bill Terry ~


Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
~By Frank Sinatra ~


Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
~By Henry Ellis ~


It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.
~By Maggie Smith ~


To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
~By Claud-Adrian Helvetius ~


This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.
~By George Ripley ~


Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
~By Angela Carter ~


My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.
~By Dominic Monaghan ~


An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.
~By Glenn Ford ~


I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
~By William Shakespeare ~


That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
~By David D. Burns ~


The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
~By Bertrand Russell ~


The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.
~By Thomas Shadwell ~


Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~


Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs.
~By Suzanne Fields ~


Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~


Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
~By Robert Morley ~


You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
~By Nile Rodgers ~


You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~


The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
~By Carroll Quigley ~


Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~


It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~


An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~


The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~


There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
~By George Galloway ~


Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
~By Joseph Addison ~


Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~


That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~


Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~


His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
~By J. K. Rowling ~


What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
~By Anatole France ~


Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
~By H. L. Mencken ~


A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
~By James A. Baldwin ~


I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~


Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~


Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
~By Lord Melbourne ~


He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
~By William Drummond ~


I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
~By Anne McCaffrey ~


Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
~By John McCarthy ~


If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~


A fool and his money are soon elected.
~By Will Rogers ~


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.
~By Adam Savage ~


Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
~By Cleopatra ~


When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
~By Cynthia Heimel ~


Fortune, that favors fools.
~By Ben Jonson ~


The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
~By Kathleen Turner ~


Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~


He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
~By Albert Camus ~


Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~


A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
~By Dalton Trumbo ~


People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
~By Patti Smith ~


It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~


You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
~By Donella Meadows ~


Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
~By Albert Einstein ~


You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~


A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
~By Bruce Lee ~


A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
~By John Churton Collins ~


When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
~By Ben Nicholson ~


Only fools are positive.
~By Moe Howard ~


It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
~By Harold MacMillan ~


Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
~By George Raft ~


The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
~By Gloria Swanson ~


No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
~By George Savile ~


Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
~By Queen Christina ~


I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
~By Stephen Fry ~


No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
~By Anton Chekhov ~


Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
~By Lynda Barry ~


Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
~By Albert Einstein ~


I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.
~By Chris Bell ~


Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~


It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
~By Mark Twain ~


I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~


Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
~By Spiro T. Agnew ~


Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
~By May Sarton ~


Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.
~By Henry Kravis ~


The heart is forever making the head its fool.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~


I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
~By Alan Coren ~


First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~


He who hesitates is a damned fool.
~By Mae West ~


Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
~By Alec Guinness ~


Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
~By Robertson Davies ~


And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
~By Mac Thornberry ~


The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
~By Michael Moore ~


No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
~By Thomas V. Smith ~


The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~


One fool at least in every married couple.
~By Henry Fielding ~


Fools are without number.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~

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