There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my… — Charles W. Nibley Copy Share Image
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. — John Updike Copy Share Image
That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further. — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else... — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone. — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
I think If I were to look for the most foolish Clinton supporter and ask you to give them equal time nationally,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly. — Dawud Wharnsby Ali Copy Share Image
Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Error is a hardy plant; it flourisheth in every coil; In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
