Fooling Quotes (page 12)

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• beings
• fool
• than

It's better to be silent than to be a fool. Harper Lee

• alone
• world
• genius

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. Haruki Murakami

• night
• cold
• cold night

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. William Shakespeare

• men
• real
• investment

Men are fools to invest in real estate. Basil Bunting

• real
• time
• true

And a real, undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if only for a short time; moreover, real and true grief has sometimes even made fools more intelligent, also only for a time, of course; grief has this property. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• love
• satan
• leper

Thy love wakes thirst for Heaven in one and all: Leper, pimp, outcast, fool and criminal, Satan, O pity my long wretchedness! Charles Baudelaire

• him
• great
• energy

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him. Hunter S. Thompson

• waiting
• lies
• lonely

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? Friedrich Nietzsche

• new look
• good
• look

What a madly gay little wine, my dear!" M. Cliquot said, repressing, but not soon enough, a grimace of pain. "One would say a Tavel of a good year," I cried, "if one were a complete bloody fool." I did not say the second clause aloud.My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before. A. J. Liebling

• giving up
• motivational
• old

Never give up an old tried friend, who has waded through all manner of toil, for your sake, and throw him away because fools may tell you he has some faults. Joseph Smith, Jr.

• look
• end
• career

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• great
• greatness
• wants

Only fools want to be great. T. H. White

• witty
• saying
• wit

For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. William Shakespeare

• end
• fish
• floats

[A]ngling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. Samuel Johnson

• strong
• determination
• fate

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others Philip Roth