#fool

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#flatters #fool #himself #man #wise

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. ↗

— James Chanos

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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it. ↗

— Ilka Chase

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#baldness #foolish #grief #hair #less

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#correctly #does #done #foolish #him

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! ↗

— Anatole France

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ↗

— Horace

#fool #fortune #makes #much #she

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#fights #fool #man #plan #possible

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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