Even a fool when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Even a fool when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
For every inch that is not fool is rogue.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Fools For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet; There was a shout about my ears, And palms before my feet.
Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
You helpless, foolish man,
I love you all I can,
I think.
I can-
Its fount is holier- more divine-
I would not call thee fool, old man,
But such is not a gift of thine.
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
The devotee keeps his Beloved clasped tightly to his heart. The fools perform devotional worship by showing off they dance and dance and jump all around, but they only suffer in terrible pain.
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
Love is your master, for he masters you;
And he that is so yoked by a fool,
Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.
Oh, foolish man, why weep you now?
My actions . . . were wrong. They were foolish. I deeply regret them, and I have every day since. I let considerations of personal convenience override clear rules of handling classified material.
Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
She liked big wigs and she shopped too much. That's as good a grave as anybody is going to get around here. It's an insult to humanity that they are not burying people. The authorities are a bunch of incompetent fools.
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that no ordinary man could be such a fool.
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.
What drew me to Office Space was just doing something totally different. Almost theatre-like, completely over the top, a real departure from News Radio. I think I am conservative, not eccentric. I don't have any inhibitions about making a fool of myself, but you have to, to be in comedy.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Stop thief, Dame Nature cried to Death As Willy drew his latest breath, How shall I make a fool again My choicest model thou hast ta'en
I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
LEAR Dost thou call me a fool, boy FOOL All thy other titles thou hast given away that thou wast born with.
Signature is extremely rare, and the belief that it commonly exists confuses police investigators and makes for a lot of foolish assumptions.
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all
the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it
apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and
delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue,
which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Greed, lust, fear, anger, misfortune, unhappiness, all Are derived from foolishness. Thus, foolishness is the greatest of poisons.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.
I dare you, boys and girls, to make life obey you, not you it. It is only a shallow dare to do the foolish things. I dare you to do the uplifting, courageous things.
Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.
I' faith, sir, you shall never need to fear;
Iwis it is not halfway to her heart;
But if it were, doubt not her care should be
To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool,
And paint your face, and use you like a fool.
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer ...
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've got three basic, foolish thoughts today about taxes. Let's take it right off with number one, which is that I believe that there should be a long-term benefit to owning stocks.
You don't bring in a director like Mike Newell and tell him, 'Well, you've got to make a film just like Chris Columbus,' ... It'd be foolish. So for me, I look this film, I see Mike Newell. I mean, I see Jo Rowling, but I see Mike Newell written all over it and that's really exciting for me.
I love him for his sake;
And yet I know him a notorious liar,
Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
That they take place when virtue's steely bones
Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
It was great to make him look like a fool. His attitude towards animals is despicable.
Tomorrow It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fools calendar.
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