Fool Quote by Jean-Baptiste Colbert Download Open image “When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.” — Jean-Baptiste Colbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fool Kings Office Providence
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Nothing under Providence is ever certain until an agent goes and tries and makes it so.” — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
“The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing.” — Jean-Baptiste Colbert Copy Share Image
The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of… — Jean-Baptiste Colbert Copy Share Image
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of… — Jean-Baptiste Colbert Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mistake doesnt make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
