A Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Fool Only Troublesome

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Napoleon Bonaparte
French - Statesman
August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

Jean de la Bruyere

. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

Christopher Moore

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

Daniel Handler

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

George Santayana

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Harold MacMillan

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

Paulo Coelho

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.

Jay Inslee

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of "the proper channels," a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.

Howard Zinn

If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

Viktor Schauberger

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.