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Fool Quotes - Page 22

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

"The Campaign of Santiago de Cuba". Book by Herbert Howland Sargent, Volume 1, p. 105, 1907.

We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.83, Random House

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

"Ringworld" by Larry Niven, Del Rey Mass Market Paperback, (p. 96), 1970.

Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making.

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index ...”, p.125

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up

John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.127, Wings Press

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

"The Works of Horace: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory".

I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.257, UPNE