Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
John le Carre
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I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools.
Alveda King
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There is something about sex that always brings out the funny in me. I think it's because we make such fools of ourselves over it.
Rita Moreno
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We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.
Maryanne Wolf
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings
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Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
Prince
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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
Thornton Wilder
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Nicolas Chamfort
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All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!
Marquis de Lafayette
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Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
Holbrook Jackson
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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.
Giacomo Casanova
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Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.
Evan Thomas
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Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.
Bertie Carvel
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope
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Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
Teller
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw
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There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.
Frank Abagnale
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
Ben Stein
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Fortune, that favors fools.
Ben Jonson
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
Sam Neill
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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