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There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

There is no medicine to cure a fool!

There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still be a total idiot.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

There's one fool at least in every married couple.

There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.

There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.

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.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.

The threat of nuclear warfare is very, very low. Trump is no fool, and he sees the world as a globalized world.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

The warrior acts, the fool reacts.

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.

The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right! It is of no greater or lesser import for yet another fool to wander this Earth. But if I am right and science is wrong, then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind!

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

They asked me to go in front of the Reagans. I'm not used to going in front of President Reagan, so we went out behind the Bushes.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.