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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
Jean GenetRead
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin FranklinRead
Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love!
Josemaria EscrivaRead
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.
Gore VidalRead
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRead
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ben JonsonRead
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
Andre MalrauxRead
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo CoelhoRead
My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.
William ShakespeareRead
Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
Og MandinoRead
Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
CleopatraRead
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
Honore De BalzacRead
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry AdamsRead
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
Thomas CarlyleRead
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Heinrich HeineRead
You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
ConfuciusRead
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.
RumiRead
Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
Don MeyerRead
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HippocratesRead

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