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Only A Fool Quotes

There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave.
- Edward Abbey

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job's got to get done
- Meg Cabot

Only a fool took a remote from a god.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
- Otto Von Bismarck

Only a fool is not afraid.
- Madeleine L Engle

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
- Jean De La Fontaine

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
- Voltaire

The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.
- Orson Scott Card

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
- Bernard Cornwell

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
- Robertson Davies

only a fool would argue with a fool!
- Eric Jerome Dickey

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I could not become anything: neither bad nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.
- James Frey

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)
- George R R Martin

Only a fool would ever claim she was more beautiful than I. The world was full of fools, however.
- George R R Martin

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
- David Gerrold

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.
- Terry Goodkind

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.
- David Hackworth

But only a fool sails into combat with nature
- Robert Harris

Because I've died many deaths, mostly over you, and I'm still alive. Trying to have a relationship with you is like trying to rescue someone from Hades. Only a fool would keep going back to get a woman who fights him every step of the way.
- Colleen Houck

If anger were money, only a fool would greedily save it up. And a wise man would let it slip out of his heart like change slips out of his pants pockets.
- Jarod Kintz

Only a fool would trade his cow for a large jar filled with grass blades and a tall glass of milk. But an even bigger fool would eat all the grass and drink all of the milk in one sitting. I was once that gluttonous fool.
- Jarod Kintz

If our limbic system betrays our true intentions, and it's beyond our conscious control, then only a fool would consider lying a wise course of action. Politicians are full of such wisdom.
- Jarod Kintz

Only a foolish man will wed her who comes easily to his bed.
- Lisa M Klein

A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is not only a fool, but a great fool.
- Dean Koontz

Only a fool would be fighting them, my queen, and though I am a fool, I'm not that foolish. (Lutian)
- Kinley Macgregor

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
- John Mccain

Brutality is the refuge of the dull of mind, ka-lyrra. Only a fool conquers when he might instead seduce.
- Karen Marie Moning

Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.
- Nora Roberts

I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. "
"What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more."
I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.
- Patrick Rothfuss

Only a fool worries over what he can't control.
- Patrick Rothfuss

It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that manas he had long suspectedwas the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.
- Rafael Sabatini

He was a fool.
Claire Montoya was convinced she didn't need anyone. That her way was the only way.
He kept walking.
Because only a fool would want a woman who would never let him in. He could touch her skin, touch her body, but she'd never trust him enough to let him touch her heart. Not the way he wanted. And he couldn't do that. Not with her. Her terms were unacceptable, her barriers too high.
- Jessica Scott

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
- Jeanette Winterson

Patti, did art get us?'
I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'
Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.
- Patti Smith

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
- Rod Stewart

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
- Lars Von Trier

Only a fool or philosopher would make sweeping generalizations about the nature of happiness. I am no philosopher, so here goes: Money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.
- Eric Weiner

He, I know - for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made - thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.
- H G Wells

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
- Jessamyn West

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
- Gabrielle Zevin

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