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.
H. L. Mencken
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We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
Giacomo Casanova
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Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can't fool Allah.
Mohammad Azharuddin
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan
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The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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.
E. F. Schumacher
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A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Erasmus Darwin
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You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.
Joshua Cohen
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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas
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Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.
Don Everly
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I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
David Gerrold
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There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.
Diogenes
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
Charles Simmons
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Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
Donald Tusk
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya
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Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
Christopher Hitchens
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Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Alec Guinness
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Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there.
Brendan O'Carroll
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
Alan Rickman
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I remember learning how to play 'The Fool On The Hill' on piano when I was in maybe fifth grade.
Britt Daniel
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake
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It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.
Antonio Davis
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You never really see me acting a fool on TV.
Vinny Guadagnino
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