Fooled Quotes (page 14)

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• inspirational
• eyes
• inspiration

Above the youth's inspired and flashing eyes/I see the motley, mocking fool's-cap rise. Thomas Hardy

• boys
• innocent
• boy

It was easy to fool the three of us (tween boys), who were naked with innocence. Michael Ondaatje

• good
• god
• evening

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled. Kurt Vonnegut

• motivational
• dragon
• live

Don't ever laugh at live Dragons, Bilbo you fool! J. R. R. Tolkien

• wise
• men
• saying

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something Aristotle

• selfish
• selfishness
• irresponsibility

Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool! Stephenie Meyer

• thoughts
• you me
• thought

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am. W. Somerset Maugham

• wine
• only
• reconstruction

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. Jeanette Winterson

• oh
• fool
• fortunes

Oh, I am fortune's fool! William Shakespeare

• the secret
• mindfulness
• him

may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better than to knowand if men should not hear them men are oldmay my mind stroll about hungryand fearless and thirsty and suppleand even if it's sunday may i be wrongfor whenever men are right they are not youngand may myself do nothing usefullyand love yourself so more than trulythere's never been quite such a fool who could failpulling all the sky over him with one smile E. E. Cummings

• journey
• sea
• my friend

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My... Ralph Waldo Emerson

• enough
• war
• manly

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. Aristophanes

• humanity
• him
• manly

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. C. S. Lewis

• adorable
• giving
• love

I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love. Katherine Mansfield

• memories
• courage
• tears

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart. Joyce Carol Oates