Fooling Quotes (page 45)

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• time
• people
• enough

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living. Otis Criblecoblis

• girl
• girls
• boys

I suppose it's more unnerving to be a boy than a girl,' she conceded.'It's the boys who have to make fools of themselves. Stephen Vizinczey

• women
• stupid
• kiss

I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you. Margaret Mitchell

• crazy
• evening
• wellness

I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered, contained no staples. Well, strike that line of defense. Charlaine Harris

• book
• reading
• book reading

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

• appearance
• ambition
• pride

It is a great error to be superior to others....It is such pride as this that makes a man appear a fool, makes him abused by others, and invites disaster. A man who is truly versed in any art will of his own accord be clearly aware of his own deficiency; and therefore, his ambition being never satisfied, he ends by never being proud. Yoshida Kenko

• controls
• fooled
• fools

The fool supply was controlled... John Steinbeck

• love
• world
• like

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down Eric Clapton

• stupid
• true
• thinking

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool. Terry Goodkind

• lies
• understanding
• promise

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying. Vladimir Putin

• running
• crying
• cover

Not only was there no traffic but the rain came down in buckets and I had no shelter. I had to run under some pines to take cover; this did no good; I began crying and swearing and socking myself on the head for being such a damn fool. Jack Kerouac

• him
• saying
• laughter

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• time
• people
• too many people

You can fool too many people, too much of the time. James Thurber

• believe
• true
• fools

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Soren Kierkegaard

• wise
• wise man
• manly

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool Lucius Annaeus Seneca