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“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I'd be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.”
Kim Kardashian
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”
Rudyard Kipling
“I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.”
Rush Limbaugh
“I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.”
Paul McCartney
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”
John Muir
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.”
Blaise Pascal
“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“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.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.”
Charles Darwin
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
Bertrand Russell
“Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'”
Bill Cosby
“I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.”
Bill Cosby
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
William Blake
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
William Blake
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
William Blake
“People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.”
Francis Bacon
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
Francis Bacon
“Silence is the virtue of fools.”
Francis Bacon
“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.”
Angelina Jolie
“I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.”
Jonathan Swift
“My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.”
Jonathan Swift
“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.”
Walt Whitman
“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.”
Marcus Aurelius
“I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.”
Lucille Ball
