"Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel."
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"A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate."
"Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist..........if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves."
"Hunger makes a fool of a man."
"A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool."
"Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love."
"What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?"
"Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling."
"All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]"
"Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right."
"Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor."
"I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit"
"None is a fool always, everyone sometimes."
"The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves."
"I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate."
"The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool."
"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."
"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."
"A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart."
"The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools."