“Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.” PeopleMenSelfFormFoundWiseFashionMovementHe ManStriveFoolishGenuineReformFringeFanaticsLunaticReform Movements Book:The Rough Riders: An Autobiography Source: The Rough Riders: An Autobiography
“Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.” MenFirstsLastsLawWiseFashionTasteFoolishSuitsFantasticTyrantsCompelled Author:Blaise Pascal
“Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.” MayWiseFashionFollowingFoolishVanityConformOften IsSingularityContradicting Author:Joseph Joubert
“...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.” PersonsNamesFashionFoolStonesFoolishSillyVainObscureDoersWanderersFoolish Person Book:The Bible According to Mark Twain Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain