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    Agatha Christie
    “The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage
    tags: fools
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    Lord Byron
    “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
    ― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
    tags: bigotry, fools, freedom, life, reason, slavery
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: complaint, condemnation, criticism, fools, misattributed-ben-franklin
    1032 likes

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    Robert Jordan
    “A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.”
    ― Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart
    tags: fools, humour
    594 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fools, humility
    1234 likes

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    Mae West
    “He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: fools, humor, paraphrased
    499 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion
    1924 likes

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    George W. Bush
    “There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
    ― George W. Bush
    tags: bushism, dumb, foolishness, fools
    475 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
    tags: cry, fools, newborn, stage
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
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    Molière
    “A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
    ― Moliere
    tags: education, foolishness, fools, ignorance, intelligence
    240 likes

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    Stephen Fry
    “Compromise is a stalling between two fools.”
    ― Stephen Fry
    tags: compromise, foolishness, fools, humor
    94 likes

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  • #13
    George R.R. Martin
    “The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
    tags: clever, fools
    457 likes

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    Stephen King
    “We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
    ― Stephen King, Duma Key
    tags: fools, life
    163 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”
    ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    tags: fools
    115 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
    tags: aging, change, perfection
    305 likes

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    Leah Wilson
    “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.”
    ― Leah Wilson, The Girl Who Was on Fire: Your Favorite Authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy
    tags: doubt, fanatics, fools, problem, sure, wiser-people, world
    61 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
    tags: ben, feasts, food, fools, franklin
    92 likes

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    Marcus Porcius Cato
    “Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.”
    ― Marcus Porcius Cato
    tags: drollery, fools, politics, wisdom
    75 likes

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    Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
    “For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.”
    ― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
    tags: devil, fools, god, love, paris
    63 likes

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    Vera Nazarian
    “To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”
    ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
    tags: exception, exceptions, fool, fools, idiot, idiots, rule, rules
    92 likes

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  • #22
    Brother Andrew
    “I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?”
    ― Brother Andrew, The Narrow Road: Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together
    tags: christ, fools, living-for-christ
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  • #23
    Heinrich Heine
    “There are more fools in the world than there are people.”
    ― Heinrich Heine
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    William Shakespeare
    “A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: fools, humor, ignorance, intelligence, wisdom
    56 likes

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    Ambrose Bierce
    “optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce
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    Henry James
    “It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.”
    ― Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton
    tags: fools
    18 likes

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  • #27
    “The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.”
    ― Claude Le Petit
    tags: fools, mirrors
    14 likes

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    Michael Flynn
    “Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.”
    ― Michael Flynn, Eifelheim
    tags: fools, hope, hopelessness, success
    42 likes

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    Steve Berry
    “But heroes, at times, had to be fools.”
    ― Steve Berry, The Venetian Betrayal
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  • #30
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    ― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
    tags: love
    4673 likes



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