Get down, you fool!

 

Get down, you fool!
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Assertion famously directed at then-President Abraham Lincoln when he came under enemy fire at Fort Stevens during the American Civil War, as quoted in Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005) by Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 643.

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!"

 

Viktor Schauberger

 

We think, I’m not a fool today. I’ve learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we’re not perfect and live accordingly.

 

Ray Bradbury

 

it is true that you may fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, but you can not fool all of the people all the time... dogs, on the other hand, with them all you need to do is flick your wrist and they run off looking for some stupid tennis ball. (famous cat quotes)

 

Darby Conley

 

I’m not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

 

Robert A. Heinlein

 

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

 

George Bernard Shaw

 

Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.

 

Henry David Thoreau