#fool

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#always #company #end #feel #first

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#beyond #certain #fools #friends #independence

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#conviction #convinced #degenerates #fools #however

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#experience #foolishness #our #wisdom

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#blessed #ears #fingers #fooled #good

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! ↗

— Joseph Hall

#hate #liberty #love #our #own

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass. ↗

— Ben Harper

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Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#fools #journalists #lied #like #made

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

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