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Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming… — Swami Vivekananda
"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we… — Swami Vivekananda
We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a… — Swami Vivekananda
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. — Thomas Frank
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool. — Bertrand Russell
I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God. — Joanna Southcott
You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you… — Dave Schulthise
The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home.… — Laozi
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most… — W. Somerset Maugham
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of… — Robert E. Sherwood
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease! — Alexander Pope
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! — William Shakespeare
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day… — Christopher Hitchens
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit… — H. L. Mencken
Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions. — Robert A. Heinlein
He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his… — Khalil Gibran
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. — Boris Pasternak
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be… — William Blake
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. — Paul Gauguin
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. — William Makepeace Thackeray
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. — Thomas Otway
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and… — Sterling W Sill
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 of pretending I… — Margaret Mitchell

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