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God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.