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“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.”
William Drummond of Logiealmond (1770–1828) first seen 1805 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Academical Questions (1805), Preface, p. 15
“They were happy, the two of them. I'd been a fool to come between them. I might destroy them both if I were not careful. A humble happiness. A good mother and child. God, I thought, if you listen to the prayers of people like myself, grant me happiness once, only once in my whole lifetime will be enough! Hear my prayer!”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every family,” he jested, “has a fool—just to keep it in touch with reality.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When all else fails, be willing to look like a fool. Maybe they will underestimate you later about something really important.”
Sarah Zettel (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“thumb|O.M.G. (Oh! My God) - Letter to [[Winston Churchill|Churchill, 9 Sept 1917]]We want brave men! ANY BLOODY FOOL CAN OBEY ORDERS!”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Admiral Beatty, dated 3 February 1915.
“I am not a fool.”
Maria V. Snyder (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He knew that he had screwed up but he was the kind of guy who, after he shoots his mouth off, cannot back down or admit any failing. The world is full of those people. All of us would be better off if their fathers would strangle them as soon as they showed signs of being that way. This particular fool was willing to sacrifice an army rather than admit his error.”
“Desperate people will do what they must to survive. Only a fool would expect the results to be pretty.”
“If you ask me, the difference between a hero and a coward is that a hero find some damn-fool way to con himself into going ahead instead of doing the sensible thing.”
“My answer is that I am a Hindu and I love Hindu dharma. How can anyone destroy it? It provides happiness both in this world as well as in the other world. There is no other religion like it. Only a deranged person or a fool would leave it to become vile. Hindu dharma would remain in the world for ever. It is not going to be destroyed by your efforts.”
Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621–1675) said by 1675 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pages full of unlikely words, Handfuls of hot, bitter tears. They call the author a silly fool, For they know not what he means.”
Wang Chi-chen (1899–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Someone worshipped stone and placed it on his head. Someone hung the phallus (lingam) from his neck. Someone visualized God in the South and someone bowed his head towards the West. Some fool worships the idols and someone goes to worship the dead. The whole world is entangled in false rituals and has not known the secret of God. [30].”
Guru Gobind Singh (1666–1708) said by 1708 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A brave man is one who admits his fear. Only a fool believes himself invincible.”
Robert Asprin (1946–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For half a century, poetry was the paradise of the solemn fool—until I came along and set up my roller coaster.”
Nicanor Parra (1914–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Silence is the best answer to a fool.”
Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it better to give or receive?” “They’re the same,” I said. “One can’t exist without the other. But if you keep giving without receiving, you’re a fool.”
Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give a fool heaven and earth, and all the stars, and he will make ducks and drakes of them.”
Howard Pyle (1853–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eu não fui desmamado com garapa! A teta da minha mãe tinha leite, e era leite do bom! (quote when someone tried to pretend/fool him)”
Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peasants can fool you They give in like sheep. They run away and hide. They offer their daughters if you'll let them alone. But suddenly one of them does a thing like this [and tries to kill you].”
Malcolm Bosse (1926–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s no big job to fool yourself.”
Jack Cady (1932–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reason to understand history is not to avoid the mistakes of history—because some fool will make those mistakes for you. Some maniac will start a war, and some other maniac will drop an atom bomb, and you'll be the poor bastard who gets to drop the bomb or be hit by it. No, you understand history so you can understand yourself.”
Jack Cady (1932–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why would he do that?” “Because he is insane, a fool, a man so devious they will have to guard his corpse after he dies, or he’ll steal it himself!”
Steve Perry (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wonder why somebody would go to all that trouble to make a complete fool of himself.” “Come on, Gina, we both know why.” “Oh, I guess you’re right. Money will always do it.” Of course.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was still young enough to hate looking like a fool more than anything in the world.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any woman who tries to influence a man in subtle ways is a fool. Every woman should influence her man, but she should do it as a full and open partner—and not in some secret fashion.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lady, do I look like a bleeping babysitter?" "He nearly died." "Yeah, because he's a fool. There's no known cure for that." (Chapter 6)”
Carl Hiaasen (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You may be one kind of fool who never gets enough or another who gets too much. (p18)”
Louise Erdrich (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fool yourself all you want, little prince, but don’t feign innocence with me. I won’t let your father get away with what he’s done. I won’t let your ignorance silence my pain.”
Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, sorry as she was for making a fool out of an old doctor, this was just one of the cases where honesty would not have been the best policy.”
Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m very aware of the time I have on this planet…I lost loved ones at a young age. I realise the platform I have and the responsibility I have, and I’m aware of my mortality. No one like me has ever had this opportunity, so I’d be a fool not to make the most of it.”
Reggie Yates (born 1983) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the scope of his current projects in “Reggie Yates on The Insider: ‘What I’m doing, no one else is doing’” in The Jackal Magazine (10 March 2017)
“I can dispel the clouds, drain the sea, or cure someone hopelessly ill. But to change the mind of a fool is beyond me.”
Lalleshwari (1320–1392) said by 1392 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Solar geoengineering, I’m afraid I think it’s a fool’s paradise, and I’ve been saying the same thing for many years.”
Joanna Haigh (born 1954) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On negative emissions and solar geoengineering "The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Joanna Haigh" (April 29, 2019)
“It would have been a terrible thing to die a fool and a liar. Truth, at any cost, is worth the price.”
Steven Barnes (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?”
John Wyndham (1903–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one but a fool would say that a man who seethes inside like a volcano is calm. I only know that when I see a man so tormented and cheated, and with such a look in his eyes, he is dangerous.”
John Wyndham (1903–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you believe a society built on raw force is going to be just, you are a fool.”
Rod Dreher (born 1967) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rioters Burning St. John's Church" (31 May 2020), The American Conservative
“The fool is proved above all things by his finding no satisfaction in any lust.”
Gregory Thaumaturgus (213–270) said by 270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only a fool wasted energy on things he could not control.”
Ian Tregillis (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your flaming tongue strikes again like the insect's deadly flight into the light, bright, holy white. I crave your kissing bite. Oh, fool me.”
“The more he didn’t know, she reasoned, the easier he would be to fool.”
Django Wexler wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We know already fool. It's a transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos. It's apparently your kind of trash.”
Paul Gosar (born 1958) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: May 24, 2022 tweet
“Thou speakest as a fool, for by the God of Heaven in whose grace I trust and in whom is my firm hope of victory, I would not have one more than I have, even if I could... Dost thou not believe that the Almighty can through this humble little band overcome the pride of these Frenchmen, who boast of their numbers and their strength?”
Henry V of England (1386–1422) first seen 1327 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Answer to Walter Hungerford, who lamented on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt that in addition to the small band which he had there could have had ten thousand of the better archers of England, as recorded in Gesta He…
“You are a fool, sir priest. Ignorance may excuse you. It will certainly kill you.”
Judith Tarr (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I give Sasha Banks all the credit in the world," (explaining why he considers the Banks to be among the all-time greats). "She’s a working fool. I mean, she is. She is that good.”
Sasha Banks (born 1992) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Ryan Satin of Fox Sports (February 16, 2021)
“Whatever the director asks me to do, I will do and make him happy. I’m a fool.”
Brigitte Lin (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Brigitte Lin: ‘In All My Movies, There Is Something of Myself’" in Film Doo (21 May 2018)
“You can't rap, my friend You're white and you're from Fulham Please put down the mic there's no way you can fool them Don't be stupid, you won't get that far Turn your back on hip-hop, bruv, and go and play guitar”
Example (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where to begin? The pain I am in, hard to know when to stop. Out of the blue a dream came true, only to see it drop. I'm no genius where love's concerned, more fool me to pretend. Whatever it takes, while my heart aches I'll never love again.”
Gilbert O'Sullivan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't try to fool me and act like you can do or say anything 'because we are a democracy...Do you misunderstand something? Today, I am the one makes the rules. Previous governments couldn't do that. But today, I made the rules [sic], and all of you have to follow them.”
Prayut Chan-o-cha (born 1954) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anti-Junta Protest in Khon Kaen, Despite Prayuth's Warnings (8 June 2015)
“Anyone who laughs at you for showing your family respect is a fool.”
Lola Shoneyin (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is harder to fool the conscience than the mind.The conscience is capable of fighting long and hard against the mind deluded by its love of sin.”
Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source