Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE" "I had no choice" said Will "… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons. — Joseph Cannon Copy Share Image
When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds -… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable? — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The best answer for a fool, tell em what they need to hear but be cool. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Foolish people waste their time searching for greener pastures... Wise people cultivate their land and grow their own. — Charles Friend Copy Share Image
I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When you start a rock n' roll band, you've gotta fake it till you make it. You begin by doin' what you… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp… — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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