A Quote by Henry James

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

Henry James

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Born Fools Never Permitted Surprised

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Henry James
American - Novelist
April 15, 1843 - February 28, 1916

I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

Medgar Evers

One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."

David Frum

I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.

Elsie de Wolfe

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools

Jeaniene Frost

We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.

Shawn Mullins

Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'.

Brigham Young

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Larry Niven

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Plutarch

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.

Donald Barthelme

They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.