#fool

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#fate #fools #perhaps #sign #temperament

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#become #decided #fool #i #i can

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. ↗

— James Thurber

#many #much #people #time #too

Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools! ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#content #drunkeness #eat #food-for-thought #fools

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. ↗