A Quote by Pete Hamill

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

Pete Hamill

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Fools Me Men Nothing Particularly Propensity Surprises

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Pete Hamill
American - Novelist
Born: June 24, 1935

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

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

Edward Albee

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Kim Wilde

Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.

Myron Scholes

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.

Randy Newman

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Andre Gide

Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?

Albert Brooks

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.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.