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Fooling Quotes (page 44)

Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better? and the vile ones are viler, for that matter. Robert A. Heinlein
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Mark Twain
Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever. Mark Helprin
Steve Martin quote: "I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never..."
I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone. Steve Martin
David Foster Wallace quote: "A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the..."
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. David Foster Wallace
I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But after I'd split it open a crack I looked in and saw the trick inside it, the filthy nothing, the fooled and rotten faces of rich and successful men. Robinson Jeffers
Heywood Broun quote: "Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor..."
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. Heywood Broun
Who is the madder,’ Osman the clown whispered into his bullock's ear as he groomed it in its small byre, ‘the madwoman, or the fool who loves the madwoman?’ The bullock didn't reply. ‘Maybe we should have stayed untouchable,’ Osman continued. ‘A compulsory ocean sounds worse than a forbidden well.’ And the bullock nodded, twice for yes, boom, boom. Salman Rushdie
Sholom Aleichem quote: "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy..."
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for therich, a tradegy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem
You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords. George R. R. Martin
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies,... C. S. Lewis
Angela Carter quote: "Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody."
Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. Angela Carter
Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer." “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself—Don’t call yourself a Christian. John Irving
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. Arthur Schopenhauer
That’s always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they’re just never going to hurt you, then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak. Taylor Swift

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