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“Friar Bacon walked in Oxford between two steeples, but he that would have discovered his thoughts, by his steps, had been more his fool than his fellow.”
Thomas Vaughan (philosopher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only a fool sees plots where there are none.”
Hilary Mantel (1952–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me If they can't understand it, how can they reach me I guess they can't, I guess they won't I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool.”
Coolio (1963–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You’re a fool, Harry.” “I know,” he said softly. “That doesn’t make you any less of one,” she replied.”
Mike Resnick (1942–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should not act like politicians. In fact, politicians appear to fight in public yet work together in the background and fool the people into fighting. As musicians, if we are to fight, let us battles on stage through music.”
Magdeline Lesolebe (born 1984) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Charma Gal falls in love with Zim by The Herald, July 18, 2014 Retrieved on 26 June 2023
“We should not act like politicians. In fact, politicians appear to fight in public yet they work together in the background and fool the people into fighting.”
Magdeline Lesolebe (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No woman should be anybody’s fool. But if you say should a woman stoop to conquer, then why not.”
Betty Irabor (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any fool can make a child but it takes a man to raise a child”
“A lot of people misunderstood why I was doing what I was doing, or even what I was doing. Then other people were actually kind of pissed off about it. Or they were worried I was going to make a fool of myself that it was somehow undignified or just weird.”
Mary Steenburgen (born 1953) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mary speak on her new passion into song writing in 2020.
“I'm a straight woman who has now played a transsexual character, and was able to fool you as possibly a heterosexual man. Don't ever let your sexuality stop you from being whatever you want to be, whether is in storytelling or real-life”
Chiedza Mhende (born 1991) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chiedza Mhende does it like a dude,11 November 2016,by Emmanuel Tjiya
“In endeavouring to bolster up the tottering edifice of imperialism, in addition to the direct use of violence, the monopoly capitalists of the imperialist countries invariably rely upon the labour aristocracy as a social prop and life-saver to sap the revolutionary will of the proletariat, to fool and divide the revolutionary people and to resist the proletarian revolutionary storm.”
Peng Zhen (1902–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house, a home? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don’t let these people fool you.”
“I’ve watched human beings fool around with love. Love of self mostly, but also love of place, work, ideas; love of friends, of male and female, parent and child. I can’t think of any human illusions more comic than those of love.”
Edgar Pangborn (1909–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well,” said the chief in disgust, “there’s two people I don’t never argue with: one’s a woman and the other’s a damn fool. And you aint no woman!”
Charles G. Finney (1905–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One must be stubborn to achieve one's goals, to be nobody's fool. ("A Cut")”
Fradl Shtok (1887–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Personally, I am not prejudicially against wars, as long as wars have international legality, as long as they have an objective, this objective is verified, as long as they are the last resort, and above all as long as we do not play with words, that is, we do not fool people.”
Marco Travaglio (born 1964) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the television program Anno Zero, 28 September 2006.
“The scar | is always beautiful that he will remind me that I was happy. (from April Fool, n. 2)”
Samuele Bersani (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[On Indro Montanelli] You're a bad old man and a fool. Shame on you!”
Emilio Fede (1931–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let nobody fool him self or herself that we do our movies in Yoruba because we cannot speak English, no, we do it in our mother's tongue because we are proud of our heritage.”
Sola Asedeko first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ERE ORIGI WILL EMPOWER WOMEN’-SOLA ASEDEKO NollywoodGist, 27 April 2011.
“Stephanie Bennett-Henry · "I realized, all along it was me who was the fool. · We never said a proper goodbye and I know you are long gone but I still have all .”
Stephanie Bennett-Henrey (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know he is important Meat because he is dressed like a fool and doing no work.”
Jay Lake (1964–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All men are born to die…Once a fool pretends otherwise.”
Jay Lake (1964–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You think that maybe it's over. Only if you want it to be. Are you gonna wait for a sign, your miracle? Stand up and fight.(This is it) Make no mistake where you are. (This is it) Your back's to the corner. (This is it) Don't be a fool anymore. (This is it) The waiting is over.”
Kenny Loggins (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If time has taught me anything You've got to learn to be the ball And I can't keep from laughing at it all Oh, I'm going nowI'm going all the way Sooner or later gotta love somebody I don't care how long it takes Like a shot to the heart I've got news for you I may not look so smart But I'm nobody's fool.”
Kenny Loggins (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trans visibility day, whatever the hell that means, March 31st is the day that someone designated, I believe, in 2009 for this day. It happened to coincide with Easter this year, and no one over there had the idea that, I don’t know, maybe the holiest day on the Christian calendar, perhaps we could just move Trans Visibility Day? April Fool’s Day would be a good day for that, in my opinion.”
Lara Trump (born 1982) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lara Trump awkwardly blames Biden’s support of trans people for high gas prices and Israel-Hamas war", Advocate, April 4, 2024
“With each step his desperation grew—maybe every scrap of gossip he had heard, every assumption he had made added up to nothing more than a grand delusion. Like a fool, he had believed what he wanted to believe—”
Terry Hayes (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So you can tell me more lies?… You told me Kuuku’s father was dead and like the fool I was, I believed you…. I know everything, Elaine. This was all a game to you wasn’t it?”
Ruby Yayra Goka (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vagina sweet, money sweet pass all, who born fool socialism chop make chop country broke you broken not so? Pray for detention jail man chop free”
Ayi Kwei Armah (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everybody told his own little African story to refute him and demonstrate that the African is a child or a fool.”
Ferdinand Oyono (1929–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sir Henry Parkes, several times premier of New South Wales, became a father—not for the first time—in his eightieth year. Friends offered their felicitations. ‘Congratulations, Sir Henry, on the birth of your last child,’ said one of them. The old knight snorted. ‘Don’t say my last, you damned fool! Say my latest.’”
Henry Parkes (1815–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Randolph Bedford, Naught to Thirty-three (1944)
“It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.”
Francis Kilvert (1840–1879) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 29 May 1871
“One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.”
J. B. Morton (1893–1979) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: By the Way (1931), p. 282
“Like a fool I thought I was the arbiter of her destiny; and all the time Fate had happier plans for her.”
Zoe Akins (1886–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hell, there’s no mystery between men and women, except why some poor damn fool like me ain’t figured that out yet.”
Parke Godwin (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The spring-time ain’t going to let you fool it by hiding away inside a durn cotton mill. It knows you got to stay on the land to feel good. That’s because humans made the mills. God made the land, but you don’t see Him building durn cotton mills. That’s how I know better than to go up there like the rest of them. I stay where God made a place for me.”
Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain’t got nothing. That’s how it looks to me. Don’t seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain’t got no time to fool with us poor folks.”
Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.”
Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (1615–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.”
Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is always artful, a ruse, a trick. It is a court fool, jumping up and down, aping its masters. Art is part of the dream that we inhabit.”
Deborah Poynton (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am an independent woman, who only needs a man when the need arises. I cannot fool myself that getting married will seal our relationship forever.”
Sheebah Karungi (born 1989) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No man in this country can impress me – Sheebah The observer (November 30, 2018)
“I consider any man a fool who allows himself to be captivated by a pretty face.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some animals lend themselves to use in idioms—the goose is a good example of this. As long ago as 1547 a simpleton was being referred to as a goose; presumably a domestic goose, for a wild goose is anything but a fool.”
George Cansdale (1909–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning to embrace being The Fool is not all-or-nothing. You can ramp into it, starting with smaller bites if that helps you get started.”
Astro Teller (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your annoying classmate who asked a lot of “stupid” questions—they might just have been strengthening their understanding of the fundamentals and not worried about how it sounded when they ask. Being The Fool in a smaller way at first.”
Astro Teller (born 1970) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Astro Teller remarks at the 2025 Academic Convocation of Rochester Institute of Technology
“The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.”
Austin O'Malley (author) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Austin O'Malley, in Keystones of Thought (1914), p. 27
Also quoted by: Benito Mussolini (misattributed)
“A GAN stands for Generative Adversarial Network and is a machine learning technique for generation of content. It works by using two systems, one which tries to make convincing output by learning from a dataset and another which judges if the output is real or not. The generator keeps adapting to try to fool the tester and eventually it makes output that is fairly convincing.”
Alexander Reben wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Forlani made a fool of himself at the Enimont trial. Evidence was found against Craxi, and he was convicted. We did not find evidence against others. The Italian Communist Party was financed by cooperatives in a declared and therefore legitimate manner. But in Milan, where they participated in the distribution of bribes, we put several communist leaders on trial.”
Piercamillo Davigo (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.”
Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A life that is never tasted when girls is at home are arrested. Gold ties, tighten, play her a fool time, time and time and so it can be imagined chocolate drips from tomato clouds will finally lossen and I will stick, sticky in love with freedom as this.”
Rina Banerjee (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, i use to fool around with girls and killing time playing soccer.”
Dumi Mkokstad wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source