In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
My father was a simple man. My mother was a simple woman. You see the result standing in front of you, a… — Chic Murray Copy Share Image
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a… — James O. Fraser Copy Share Image
Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I was just thinking of bundling up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks at Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods,… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image