A Quote by Mark Twain
The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.
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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.
Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?
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