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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Carl SaganRead
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce LeeRead
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce LeeRead
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
George Bernard ShawRead
Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.
Mark CubanRead
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
H. G. WellsRead
Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
Abraham LincolnRead
So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
Charles BukowskiRead
If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.
Elizabeth GaskellRead
Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.
Shirley JacksonRead
There had never been a shortage of fools in the world
Stephen KingRead
I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.
Charles BukowskiRead
Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
Haruki MurakamiRead
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.
Napoleon BonaparteRead
I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
Charles BukowskiRead
I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.
Mitch AlbomRead
When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
Pablo NerudaRead
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
Alexandre DumasRead
the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools
Jim MorrisonRead
Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.
Chris RockRead

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