Fooling Quotes (page 41)

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• cans
• mostly
• most

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain--and most do. Dale Carnegie

• learning
• to live
• brother

We must either learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to die together as fools. Martin Luther King jr.

• intelligent
• saying
• fooled

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say. Pablo Neruda

• understanding
• clever
• manly

I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool? George R. R. Martin

• different
• may
• arguing

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the differance Mark Twain

• death
• willful
• willing

The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will prove nothing. Lavinia: Then why kill me? George Bernard Shaw

• sometimes
• may
• manly

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Jonathan Swift

• genius
• wall
• work

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works. Haruki Murakami

• wise
• ask
• fool

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain. Ursula K. Le Guin

• simplicity
• intelligent
• genius

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity. E. F. Schumacher

• wise
• wise man
• manly

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. Martin Luther King jr.

• real
• she
• the secret

The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine. Terry Prachett

• people
• doubt
• world

Whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves, and wiser people are full of doubts George Bernard Shaw

• reading
• book
• rough

GOING TO WALDENIt isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen. The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool. To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing. As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult.... Mary Oliver

• fooled
• contradiction
• contradict

Only fools don't contradict themselves Andre Gide