I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In common parlance, “fool” and “sage” appear to be opposites, one connoting ignorance and the other wisdom. At their depths, however, both… — Bill Plotkin Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass - That secret to each fool - that he's an ass. The truth once… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life Tomoe came to the realization that there are fools and fools. A man who loves… — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive… — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I never wanted it to get to this point. I had hoped that, by its own course, by the way the media… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
“One thing has not worked for many - been open, accepting everyone, loving too quickly, giving without thinking, but what is wrong… — Lord Uzih Copy Share Image
Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for… — David Gries Copy Share Image
Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the… — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Daniel Radcliffe was actually a fan of the show and excited to be on it. Some of it is we've gone long… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“An American president once said : you can be a fool some of the time but not all of the time, or… — Aaron T Knight 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
“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
