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Quote Left Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? Quote Right
Quote Left He who knows not and knows not he knows not, He is a fool - Shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, He is simple- Teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows, He is asleep - Awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, He is wise- follow him. Quote Right
Quote Left The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own. Quote Right
Quote Left Don't let them fool ya, Or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We've got a mind of our own, So go to hell if what you're thinking is not right! Love would never leave us alone, A-yin the darkness there must come out to light. Quote Right
Quote Left It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Quote Right
Quote Left His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. You appear to be astonished, he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it. To forget it! You see, he explained, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. But the Solar System! I protested. What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently: you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. Quote Right
Quote Left But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write. Quote Right
Quote Left And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,... Quote Right
Quote Left You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. Quote Right
Quote Left Children look for grown-ups to show them how to live; When we try to fool them, they see through us like a sieve. We recognize the problem now; that's wonderful to see; The answer may well plague us 'til new values come to be. Volunteers are wonderful and will help to meet the need, But we must change the literature on which our children feed. We must teach and model absolutes of love, and justice, too; Prove to them that what we say, is just what we will do. There is one book, and it alone, will help attain success. It is the book, our fathers brought, to tame this wilderness. They used the Bible as their guide, the written Word of God; And found the wisdom written there, the greatest on this sod. Whether it was in the home, in public, or in school, The bible was the blueprint that became their greatest tool. Let's trash the recent literature before it is too late; Teach again, the basic values, that made our nation great. Surely it is evident, without a single doubt, That truth and right mus be invoked to help our children out. So, let's scour all the nation, and get folks to volunteer That believe the principles our precious kids should hear. If they are dependable, and use the proper tact, Volunteers can help to get our children back on track. Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. Quote Right
Quote Left By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. Quote Right
Quote Left It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Quote Right
Quote Left Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Quote Right
Quote Left 'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. Quote Right
Quote Left The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. Quote Right
Quote Left And he who wields white wild magic gold is a paradox - for he is everything and nothing, hero and fool, potent, helpless - and with one word of truth or treachery he will save or damn the Earth because he is mad and sane, cold and passionate, lost and found. Quote Right
Quote Left A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. Quote Right
Quote Left Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write. Quote Right
Quote Left I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. Quote Right
Quote Left The fool wanders, a wise man travels. Quote Right
Quote Left The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first. Quote Right
Quote Left In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. Quote Right
Quote Left When a fool has made up his mind the market has gone by Quote Right
Quote Left Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Quote Right
Quote Left As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Quote Right
Quote Left He who hesitates is a damned fool. Quote Right
Quote Left You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for! Quote Right
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Member Quotes About Fool

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Quote Left Donald Trump is Putin's puppet, in fact he's just a fool, he was hoping for a Nobel peace prize, but finished up with sod all. Quote Right
Quote Left "Find the 'Other I' within - that's God/Allah/the Nameless." "Humanity is the only true faith - all scriptures whisper this." "Skin-deep equality fools. Soul-deep equality liberates." "Stop wandering aimlessly - go to the connoisseur. Then you'll know if you're glass or diamond." "Protest selflessly. Self-interested rebels become tomorrow's tyrants." "God dwells not in hollow religiosity but in our conscience - His true throne." Quote Right
Quote Left Some seek to control others, some seek to control themselves whilst others seek to control their environment. A fool engages in one, a wise man two but a truly enlightened man masters all three. Quote Right
Quote Left Fools are born not made but wise men, wise men are shaped by the currents and tides Quote Right
Quote Left Will the merciful Lord strengthen me when dreariness abounds and desperation revokes hopelessness? Only when my weakness becomes strength: I can rely on myself, not on others who may mock me, thinking it's foolishness. Success in everything cannot be achieved. Avoid stubbornness and settle for a simple life, never recurring to want more than need. Quote Right
Quote Left A fool is anyone who believes the truth to be anything the Government says. Quote Right
Quote Left “The fool is closest to God, because he’s the only one that admits, he doesn’t understand.” Quote Right
Quote Left "We can learn from our mistakes, but constantly repeating the same mistakes is fatal foolishness." Quote Right
Quote Left "Wisdom begins when one peers back on their life and recognizes their foolishness, then has the maturity to know that it is a life long journey ". Quote Right
Quote Left It's not about being good or bad.... It's about having control over what we produce... It is not as simple as feeding input n receiving output.... Human brain is smart enough to befool the brain itself!!!!!! Amazingly, we are super creatures!!! Quote Right
Quote Left The madness of this foolish generation can be only changed by confronting its own death. Quote Right
Quote Left Dream beyond your limits but live within your means without forgetting to put in due work, for the folly of fools lies in their hate for understanding Quote Right
Quote Left All the liars and enablers and fawning media are panicking now because they have been exposed on national TV. The big lie is out. Joe and his handlers and carers are busy devising a new way to gaslight you, to make you believe it was all just a bad day. You have been played for a fool! Quote Right
Quote Left Heart Attacks: God cuts man slack in which man foolishly ties knots – Soul Clots. Quote Right
Quote Left I never act the fool - it’s completely genuine! Quote Right
Quote Left Suffering fools comes with the territory — any true writer to know Quote Right
Quote Left Don't fool with a fool. Quote Right
Quote Left Why is India just going towards brain drain because of lack of opportunities for youth our leaders are fools With love all Jagdish bajantri Aghori mhabharamnad Quote Right
Quote Left One may fool outsiders moreover one can't dupe one's inner self. Quote Right
Quote Left "life is full of deception, only a fool reveals his true self" by mr.thought Quote Right
Quote Left Faith is a foolish move that integrates a man as member into God's family. Without it, we are strangers to Him Quote Right
Quote Left One can play the fool at times just remember playing the clown and jester shall sometimes be for entertainment purposes only. Quote Right
Quote Left “To put on a facade that can fool the mask maker himself; truly is the greatest lie of all.” Quote Right
Quote Left The Light and the Dark of it. Some people will go to extraordinary measures for redemption. Some people go to extraordinary lengths for Love. Some will call it courage. Others will denigrate the truth of the fall in delivery as foolish. There are benefits to falling, to the breaking: beginning, middle, end. If not the whole, you cannot see but a part of yourself in others, then there is something vitally humane missing in you. You are "Godless".No matter how clean and worthy you deem yourself. Quote Right
Quote Left "The Light and the Dark of it. Some people will go to extraordinary measures for redemption. Some people go to extraordinary lengths for Love. Some will call it courage. Others will denigrate the truth of the fall in delivery as foolish. There are benefits to falling, to the breaking: beginning, middle, end. If not the whole, you cannot see but a part of yourself in others, then there is something vitally humane missing in you. You are "Godless". No matter how clean and worthy you deem yourself. Quote Right
Quote Left A fool is not someone who can't understand, but someone who doesn't want to. Quote Right
Quote Left Some fool everybody, but first themselves. There is no greatness outside the expression of love -- like God so should behave His man. Quote Right
Quote Left Those who wanted to change nature by social distancing soon discovered that they acted foolishly by forcing a vaccine which cured nothing Quote Right
Quote Left Power is in the hands so foolish men: we have seen the consequences and the devasting impact of war. Many empires have fallen, other empires will rise and upon our death, we can't even take our treasures locked in steel vaults. Quote Right
Quote Left I am who I am, Why I am so, I can't understand. Some say I'm foolish, Perhaps I am, but why, I'm clueless. Seemingly, I am pointless, But still, I am cool among the masses Quote Right
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