Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
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An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
Nick Denton
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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.
William Penn
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The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Marc Guggenheim
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus
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You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
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I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.
Penn Jillette
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The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing.
Jim DeMint
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I had to fool the world into accepting me. I didn't seem to fit the mould of my idols.
Kayvan Novak
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Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct.
Sheldon Whitehouse
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams
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Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.
Isabel Allende
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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.
Thomas Vernor Smith
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
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Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.
Harry Harlow
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A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Thomas Fuller
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.
Francois Rabelais
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I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions of power - in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and political power - by being anybody's fool.
Norman Finkelstein
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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Maya Angelou
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Al Bernstein
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You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
Nile Rodgers
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Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even though it's night-time and you want to get to sleep.
Matthew Walker
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I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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