I Pity The Fool

"I Pity the Fool" is a song originally recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961 for Duke Records. The song was credited to Deadric Malone, a pseudonym of Duke Records owner Don Robey. David Bowie covered it under the name The Manish Boys in 1965 and it was released as his second single.

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Famous quotes containing the words pity and/or fool:

    Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
    That sees into the bottom of my grief?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Then I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?” And I said to myself that this also is vanity. For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?
    Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 2:15-16.