If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes.… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
You know what comes next, of course. You know I'm writing this at my desk, on a Thursday, and day after tomorrow… — James Autry Copy Share Image
Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the… — Homer Copy Share Image
'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
It's an old Elizabethan idea. The fool is the only one who is allowed to make fun of the king because he… — Harry Anderson Copy Share Image
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Love is an ugly, terrible business practiced by fools. It’ll trample your heart and leave you bleeding on the floor. And what… — Jennifer Flackett Copy Share Image
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Soon a whole guild of low-priced shrine keepers around Europe named their own pope - Boldface the Relatively Shameless, Discount Pope of… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money is the root of all evil.' Then we hear, 'A fool and his money are soon parted.' What are they talking… — George Burns Copy Share Image
We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell?… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
...Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image