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
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“Similarly, it does not matter what the mind is doing once you identify it as a fool. If there is somebody very… — Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudevuru Copy Share Image
I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Once (says an Author; where I need not say) Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry; the… — Pope Alexander VI Copy Share Image
We humans are born egocentric. The sky thunders and children believe that God is mad at them for something they've done -… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And this is Nymphadora-" "Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus," said the young witch with a shudder. "It's Tonks." "-Nymphadora Tonks, who prefers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the point. Song: One, because when… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
It's how they've stayed popular for so long. By not doing anything that will make them look like fools. They never leave… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I… — Christopher Moore 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
Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse… — Holly Black 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
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
You don't know me baby but I know you so well, Tried to make a fool of me, tried to ring my… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
Only a fool pokes a mama bear, but that's Merrick Garland for you. The attorney general thought to be such a moderate… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of… — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing,… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
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![“One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about…” quote by William Golding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/203/william-golding-1233_academic_one-thing-should-be-put-firmly-where-peo_1839730.png)
