I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
We're not real strong with the ball so that's going to bother us. We just do some foolish things with the basketball and a good defensive team is going to slide in and help and then we're stuck with the ball.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
You ask whether I have ever been in love fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bront, of anyone else I have read. (Clive Staples
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.
When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
Playing well last week makes it a lot easier, building confidence and letting the team know that they can rely on me, ... I'm just trying to go about my day, not trying to get any special attention. Just try to stay to myself and do what they expect me to do. I mean, I'm just going to take advantage of the opportunity. I'd be a fool to blow it.
Idleness, women, disorder, a foolish partiality for one's own native place, discontent and timidity are six obstructions to greatness.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
Every member of this committee should be offended by the ... wild spin that was just put on by Mr. Lindsey in attempting to somehow send a message to Monica Lewinsky that she has been undermined by the president of the United States and thus set her up to be angry at the president in case she's called as a witness, ... We're no fools.
I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.
I hope Bush, with his interest in history, will realize that, in time, the fights over oil will look equally foolish. Government has the ability to foster research and develop existing technology to move the world away from oil.
Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
Every person who pays off their credit card in full each month should be using a credit card that gives a rebate or a reward. Otherwise, you are being economically foolish. Some of these cards pay you a significant cash rebate just for using the card.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
THERE are three types of approaches towards the Lord the Eagle type, which swoops down on the target with a greedy swiftness and suddenness which, by its very impact, fails to secure the object coveted the Monkey type, which flits hither and thither, from one to another, unable to decide which is tasty and the Ant type which moves steadily, though slowly towards the object which it has decided is desirable. The ant does not hit the fruit hard and makes it fall away it does not pluck all the fruits it seeks it appropriates just as much as it can assimilate and no more. Do not fritter away the time allotted to you for sojourning on the earth in foolish foppery and fanciful foibles, which always keep you outdoors. When are you to walk indoors into the warmth and quiet of your own interior Retire into solitude and silence now and then experience the joy derivable only from them.
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death Fate will give an eternal rest.
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
Whatever games I play with fools, I play no games with my friends and Bob Miller here I deal with honesty and truth.
Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world.
Aggression is no reason to be foolish. The double play is one thing. Running into stupid outs That's even worse, in my opinion.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
People are not necessarily enamored with all of the changes that are being made but don't feel that they have much choice at this point in time. To roll the dice here would be quite foolish.
I'm the court jester, ... class clown, fool.
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar.
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
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. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer.
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
Part of what I've found is that people who can think creatively and can do this kind of work need a tolerant environment, ... Texas will wind up looking un-American, intolerant and very foolish.
And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals.
If a man becomes fat and a great eater, if he is sleepy and rolls himself about, that fool, like a hog fed on wash, is born again and again.
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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