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Fool Quotes - Page 20

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.28, Random House

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.162, Lulu Press, Inc

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

"Lou Reed: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.55, Ballantine Books

A cat is nobody's fool.

Heywood Broun (1935). “It seems to me, 1925-1935”, 1935.

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188