It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves By lowering your standards By doing work you despise for purchasers your scorn If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity Is this the root of your hatred of money.
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
A modern Wit is one of David's Fools.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.
We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.
... no battle is ever won ... they are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and Victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Whom do we dub as Gentleman; The Knave, the fool, the brute --If they but own full tithe of gold,and Wear a courtly suit.
I don't know why he ran from the car, I know we can all speculate . . . but he was a fool, he's quit the captaincy, he's paid a price . . . . He's a fool because it's not a good image for a captain of a football club. But he's been dealt with by the club under the code of conduct.
Love him or hate him, he's no fool. He's realized he may have lost his leadership post, but with the trial he faces losing much more than that. He may not be as focused on keeping his House seat as he has been.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
No one but a fool is always right.
When you fool a fool, you strike a blow for intelligence.
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either but they that begin first to inquire will soonest be gladdened with revelation and with them He will be best pleased, for the slowness of His disciples troubled Him of old. To say that we must wait for the other world, to know the mind of Him who came t o this world to give Himself to us, seems to me the foolishness of a worldly and lazy spirit. The Son of God is the teacher of men, giving to them of His Spirit that Spirit which manifests the deep things of God, being to a man the mind of Christ. The great heresy of the Church of the present day is unbelief in this Spirit.
If we close our eyes to the social and political reality in which this crime occurred, we are fools.
There are two enemies to every bill proposed in Congress, the fools who favor it and the lunatics who oppose it.
Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.
To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in everything and everywhere, reveal fraud, foolishness and ineptitude is a work of supreme religious piety.
A fool is wise in his eyes.
I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
There are four types of men in this world 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows he is a fool, so avoid him.
In squandering wealth was his peculiar art Nothing went unrewarded, but desert. Beggard by fools, whom still he found too late H had his jest, and they had his estate.
Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.
Some are bewilder'd in the Maze of Schools,
And some made Coxcombs Nature meant but Fools.
Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms
Love works in miracles every day such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
The learned are envied by the foolish rich men by the poor chaste women by adulteresses and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
I am always afraid of a fool one cannot be sure he is not a knave.
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
JAQUES A fool, a fool I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool a miserable world As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms and yet a motley fool. 'Good.
A fool can ask more questions than the wisest can answer.
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
Just a huge mental mistake. Giving the game away in the opening minute of the second half to me is very foolish.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life but only a fool trusts either of them.
If a fool is about, p'raps it's you!
One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real and why only a hundred thousand Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.
Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun it gets longer when you run to catch it makes you a fool.
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
There are two kinds of fools one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good' the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'
They caught us easing up. We got careless just long enough for them to take advantage within the 18-yard box. Just a foolish lapse for a moment and it cost us.
I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.
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