Fool Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Download Open image “What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!” — Kurt Vonnegut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fool Happiness Interfere Self Self respect
I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
What makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Our own happiness rests solely with ourselves. We're the only ones who can influence that outcome. Leaving it to someone else can be fatal! — Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell Copy Share Image
Happiness blooms in the presence of self-respect,and the absence of ego. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things. — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut 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