A Quotes
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“Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.”
Source: Stories and Prose Poems
“Any fool can break something, criticise someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help others thrive over time.”
“Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.”
“Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.”
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.”
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.”
Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays
“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.”
Source: Killosophy
“Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.”
“Any fool can find answers. People who ask new questions, they are the geniuses”
“ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN
BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS
TO GET OUT OF ONE.”
“Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”
“Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.”
“Any fool can hide, few can play.”
“Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.”
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
“Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience, that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming the appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either.”
Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.”
Source: Yours for Liberty
“Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.”
Source: Journal #14
“Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.”
“Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.”
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
“Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after.”
“Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.”
Source: The Essential Samuel Butler
“Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.”
Source: The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two
“Any fool can see what's there. You need to see what is not there.”
Source: The Emperor's Blades
“Any fool can sit on a moral high horse when he isn't challenged by the reality of the race.”
“Any fool can start a religion. And many do.”
“Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.”
“Any fool can steer a ship, sir. Its just knowing where to take it.”
“Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.”
“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”
Source: Foundation Trilogy
“Any fool can tell a lie, and any fool can believe it; but the right method is to tell the truth in such a way that the intelligent reader is seduced into telling the lie for himself.”
“Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.”
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
“Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.”
“Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.”
Source: Murphy
“Any fool can use a computer. Many do.”
“Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.”
Source: Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches
“Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.”
“Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.”
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
Source: Refactoring: Ruby Edition
“Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.”
Source: Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23)
“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.”
“Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.”
“Any fool might do an honest business. But fraud requires a man to be alive and wide awake at every turn!”
Source: The Way We Live Now