I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the… — Alex Gaskarth 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
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end… — William Booth 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
Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation… — William D. Hoard Copy Share Image
The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool. — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
If you think my acts are foolishness; the foolishness may be in the fools eye. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts. — Howard Thurston Copy Share Image
However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“My master warned me about you.” “Then he isn’t a complete fool,” Talik said. “Just mostly.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is… — William Ralph Inge 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
I don't know what's worst, being taken for granted or being played like a fool. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image