All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so,… — Amy Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I got to sit back and carefully evaluate my next Lover-partner-friend cause I refuse to give any more of my time to… — MsKee Copy Share Image
A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you. — Cleopatra 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
It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool. — Connie Francis 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
The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are… — Edie Scott Hoffman Copy Share Image
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why… — Michael Oher Copy Share Image
Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the… — Canibus Copy Share Image
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn’t know enough… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only a fool would think the league was already won after just ten games. — Giorgio Chiellini Copy Share Image
“My dragons!' she insisted. 'She has finally found a flock to join,' he observed to me. 'Her own kind always pecked her.… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they're always going to sound like… — Megan Ganz Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny. — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image