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When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"
He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.
It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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.
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
Maybe I’m weak for music men. Maybe I’m weak, period. But I couldn’t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.
He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose.
In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.
Who knows where the road will lead us Only a fool would say, But if you let me love you I'm sure to love you all the way.
Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.
Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.
If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
Although I had a good job as an advertising manager for a shoe company in Boston, I really liked to fool around with comedy.
I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.
People make fools out of themselves in all sorts of ways. No particular qualifications or particular criteria are necessary.
What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.