#fool

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#fool #people #some #time #you

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#country #fool #freeman #himself #his

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#fools #learn #live #must #perish

You really are being quite foolish to smoke. ↗

— Iain Glen

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The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#change #female #foolhardy #format #function

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. ↗

— Baron de Montesquieu

#bored #come #content #fool #generations

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#blood #fool #get #into #mosquito

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it ↗

— Judith McNaught

#foolishness #sad #westmoreland #dreams

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#carry #considering #contract #earth #every