A Quote by John Churton Collins
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
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It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.
A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
I think any kind of comic sequence is as easy and as difficult as it is written. So, if it is written well, then it becomes easy. Sometimes you find it difficult because the humour is not coming out.
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.
There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.
The Holy Apostle John the Theologian says that the commandments of God are not difficult, but easy (I John, 5:3). But they are only easy because of love, while they are all difficult if there is no love.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.
There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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