I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.
Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.
I got tiger blood man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.
Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.
Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.
So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools
We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
People make fools out of themselves in all sorts of ways. No particular qualifications or particular criteria are necessary.
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.
Those are fools however learned
Who have not learned to walk with the world.
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
Reason thus with life:
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
That none but fools would keep.
Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.
Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.
My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.
The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.
We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
[Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.
People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.
The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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