Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I Stuck Up For You When People Would Call You A Player I Stuck Up For You When People Would Say Your… — Stephanie Hernandez Copy Share Image
To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might be… — Rudolph Valentino Copy Share Image
“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool."… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
As to the "traditional filler of twenty-first century realist fiction," maybe that is something I avoid. I don't relate to standard psychologizing… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Really, Miss Catherine, how can I know?' I replied. 'To be sure, considering the exhibition you performed in his presence this afternoon,… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Most people don't know what they're talking about. They move their mouth and say things because they don't want to admit they… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it!… — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They… — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“And making a fool of yourself is something all actors have to risk doing. That’s part of our business. And that too… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the… — Edgerrin James Copy Share Image
May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we… — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change… — John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher Copy Share Image
“Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“He had been a fool to imagine it, but he was glad he had been a fool. She had given him one… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man.… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
“The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool… — Ben Rector Copy Share Image
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image