George W. Bush - Quotes

 There's an old saying in Tennessee  

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Stephen Fry - Quotes

 Compromise is a stalling between two fools. 

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William Shatner - Quotes

 If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity. 

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Cher - Quotes

 Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.



 

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Angela Carter - Quotes

 And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way. 

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W. Somerset Maugham - Quotes

 If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish. 

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Bertrand Russell - Quotes

 The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible 

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Alice Walker - Quotes

 People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.  

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Kurt Vonnegut - Quotes

 If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness. 

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Nick Cave - Quotes

 But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals

Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . 

Tags: cannibalism   cannibals   company   dining   eating   food   foolishness   risk     
Confucius - Quotes

 Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. 

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Muppet*vision 3-D - Quotes

 Sam the Eagle:
Will you stop this foolishness?
The Great Gonzo:
What foolishness would you like to see?
 

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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - Quotes

 I did not want to be taken for a fool  

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Andrea Ruedi - Quotes

 You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes

 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. 

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Lois McMaster Bujold - Quotes

 Royse Bergon:  

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Sacha Guitry - Quotes

 Our wisdom comes from our experience,

and our experience comes from our foolishness. 

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John Kenneth Galbraith - Quotes

 Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion. 

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Alexandre Dumas - Quotes

 If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo 

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Robert Jordan - Quotes

 In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes 

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Hermann Hesse - Quotes

 Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness. 

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