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The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society, the collective has no soul; the soul belongs to the individual. Hence, those who belong to the collective are destroying every possibility of being souls.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

The fool learns by suffering.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

The fool knows after he has suffered.

The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

The future will be a better tomorrow.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.

The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.

The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

The greater the fool the better the dancer.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.