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"There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it."
"Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper."
"Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little."
"And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before."
"Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly."
"Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?"
"From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?"
"That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke."
"The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed."
"She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]."
"When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say."
"You bloody silly fool!"
""Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool.""
"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."
"My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others."
"Most fools think they are only ignorant."
"You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind."
"Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived."
"Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to."
"Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity."
