Money Quote by Ben Jonson

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that…

— Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt

“A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any…

— George Eliot

“All fools suffer the burden of dissatisfaction with themselves.”

— Seneca the Elder

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“who is not sick, or ill-disposed? in whom doth not passion, anger, envy, discontent, fear and sorrow reign? Who labours not of this disease?”

— Robert Burton

“There is some sickness in man, some paranoid delusion, some grandiose morbidity that runs right through to distant ancestors. Or maybe it is the…

— John Joseph Adams

“Persons born in wealth and luxury seldom achieve greatness. They were not born for labour; and, without labour, nothing that is worth having can…

— Maria S. Cummins

“Every one knows that our civilization is in difficulties, and the stupidity of the suggested remedies only indicates the gravity of the disease, for…

— R. G. Collingwood

“The seeds of who I am now had been planted. "Fools aren't born," I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class. "They…

— Marilyn Manson

“I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a fool, or…

— Joseph Conrad