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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me.
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.
I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.
When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.
We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.
Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
It seems like I have more in common - or hit it off better - with rappers than fools that are in rock music. It was always natural for me.
Coaxing drunken Shadowhunters into making fools of themselves was a favorite occupation among the Downworlders, and this performance had been a tremendous success.
Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.
You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.
But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
I've wanted you since the moment you tried to run me over. You are unlike any woman I have met before. You are strong, and courageous, and you do not suffer fools.
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love... but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it." "When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?
Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
Don't look at people like they're fools. I don't want to be misunderstand...and I don't want to be a fool again.
The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.
Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.
Battles I lose none I make crews run
I get fools done, got ten fingers but only use one
I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.
We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
