The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm ashamed to say, I've done hideous pen portraits of people I don't like in my novels. And they'll say, 'Oh, that… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else. — David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
When I was younger I would be taken for a ride alot, I would believe anybody at face value, I was quite… — Richa Chadha Copy Share Image
“So what did you think the devil would look like? If he were red with a tail, horns, and cloven hooves, any… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Cassius laughed, genuinely amused. "You truly are a fool, Priest.” He shook his head. “A treasure … I've never heard it called… — James Byron Huggins Copy Share Image
In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience. — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people,… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a… — John Hewson Copy Share Image
You can't always believe what you hear. Things change so often in this sport, you'd be a fool if you believed everything… — Rory MacDonald Copy Share Image
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's a waste of time arguing with a fool because if you do, you will only end up making yourself one too. — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
“I am such a classic fool, aren't I?" "No, not a fool. Just in love," "It's all the same." "No, it's not.” — Sapan Saxena Copy Share Image
Don't let men fool you... we all want love; we just know that it can leave us very vulnerable, and we seek… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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