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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.


Robert Benchley

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IDA LUPINO It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.
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NANCY PICKARD I tell you the world is full of fools and only fools call each other fools.
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GABRIELLE UNION Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I am happy with my name. It is such an attraction, and it makes people laugh.
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LEE BRAND Just do it. Now.
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ALICE WALKER Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
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CARL HIAASEN It doesn't behoove us not to ask these questions. It makes us look like fools.
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CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underes...
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NORMAN FRIEDMAN People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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GEORGE CHAPMAN Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
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CHRIS AUSTIN Learned fools exceed all fools
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ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
ROBERT MUGABE We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
ROBERT MUGABE In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East ...
ROBERT MUGABE Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
ROBERT MUGABE