A Quote by Holbrook Jackson
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
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I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.
The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.
I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.
As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.
If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.
I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.
This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.
I suffered fools so gladly.
May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.
We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.
Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
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