309 Quotes About Fools
- Author Ambrose Bierce
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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.
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- Author Christopher Moore
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WARNINGThis is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional grammar, split infinitives, and the odd wank. If that sort of thing bothers you, then gentle reader pass by, for we endeavor only to entertain, not to offend. That said, if that’s the sort of thing you think you might enjoy, then you have happened upon the perfect story!
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- Author Henry James
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It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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- Author Claude Le Petit
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The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.
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- Author Jack Henry Abbott
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I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.
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- Author Charles Portis
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What have you done when you have bested a fool?
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- Author Dave Eggers
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We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late
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- Author Ray Bradbury
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So the carnival steams by, shakes ANY tree: it rains jackasses.
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- Author Haresh Sippy
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A thick-skinned person and a fool are oblivious to the ways of the world.
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