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“To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.”

Might Turns Poverty Fool Bears Guests Poorest

“Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.”

People Thinking Want Said Whole Sides Cases Information Fool What You Want Criminals Trials Your Side Whole Truth Nothing But The Truth Prosecuting

Author:F. Lee Bailey

“Don't liken me to that [SOB]. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain [GD] fool.”

Long Religious Policy Fool Prejudice Public Policy Religious Prejudice

Author:Huey Long

“She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.”

Stills Beautiful Cutting Magic Feet Streets Fool Knives Beautiful Things Glances Hello

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The wise men were all fools, what to do?”

Men Wise Fool

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone. Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.”

Men Feels Heart Reason Home Turns Heaven Company Hell Fool My Friends Stones Skins Sorry Miles Tonight Halfway Sad Man

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you have come into this world." "To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.”

World Said Teach This World Masters Like You Fool Reverence Disciple

Author:Anthony de Mello

“Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive”

Men Way Trying School Honest Fool Lovers Edges Yesterday Going To Work Another Way Honest Man

Author:Cat Stevens

“Any damn fool can predict the past.”

Past Fool Damn

Book:Niven's Laws

Source: Niven's Laws

“Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .”

World Play Lasts Laughing Fool Clown Calves World Love

Author:Cole Porter

“A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.”

Shows Seems Born Laughing Fool Laughter Teeth

Author:George Pope Morris

“The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.”

World Has Beens Facts School Forever Fool Truth Is Economics Committed Doctrine Conclusion Assumption Paradise Economist Renunciation Fling

Book:Political Economy

Source: Political Economy

“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.”

Wells Persons Self Political Desire Stage Possibility Position Fool Scene Ambition Claims Madness Praise Critics Definitions Folly Criticize License Rivals Rivalry Reprisal Erasmus

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.”

Turns House Television Fool Bunch Turn-on Yelling House Of Commons

Author:Jean Chretien

“[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.”

Ifs Should Soul Can Do Practice Talent Fool Jazz

Author:Stewart Copeland

“Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.”

Life Is Stupid Fool Foolish Farce

Author:David Gemmell

“Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.”

Love Is Boys Magic Mystery Blood Fool My Boys

Author:David Gemmell

“I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.”

Ifs Knows Feels Able Acting Mistake Stage Fronts Fool Highest Just Live

Author:Mike Tyson

“If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.”

Ifs Littles Struggle Fine Fool Tiny Witness Menace

Book:War Is Kind and Other Poems

Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems

“Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.”

Regret Fool No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:George Galloway

“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation”

Fool Imitation Copying

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.”

Firsts Hands Tree Fool Findings Hollow Wot

Book:The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series

Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series

“I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.”

May Fool

Book:The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'

“Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.”

Men Sometimes Pain Young Pride Fool Bears Young Man Foolishness Badges

Author:Robert Jordan

“Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!”

Men Fool Stones Als Mules

Author:Robert Jordan

“It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.”

Fool Easier

Book:The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

“Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.”

Men Young Car Fool Young Man Impetuous

Author:Robert Jordan

“Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking, my Lord Dragon.”

Thinking Stills Lord Enemy Fool Dragons

Book:A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'

“It seems to me that kings and queens can be fools when they forget what they are and act like who they are, but they're worse when they only remember what they are and forget who.”

Seems Remember Forget Fool Kings Queens Kings And Queens

Book:The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'

“Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.”

War Fool Tough Fraud

Author:John McCain

“Make peace, you fools!”

Fool Making Peace

Author:Gerd von Rundstedt

“If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disregard for guilt or innocence, you are effectively and knowingly issuing orders to seize innocent people and torture them. Any president who decides to do that and then says it was not his intention to do that is a fraud or a fool.”

People Ifs Giving Light Order President Fool Green Guilt Intention Rounds Innocent Innocence Torture Fraud Conventions Globes Reckless Disregard Geneva Green Lights Geneva Convention

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one.”

Lasts Next Speak Fool Battle The Next One Great Battle

Author:Roger Zelazny

“What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.”

Fool Investment Wasting Time Best Investment

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.”

Pay Worst Fool Ingratitude

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.”

Men Wisdom Wise Fool Tongue

Author:Ivan Panin

“Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not.”

Knows Said Done Reality Actors Social Differences Effects Fool Politician Spots Indian Activist Whom To Trust

Author:Rahul Bose

“There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.”

Artist Imagine Fool Unconscious Collaboration Primitive Robinson Crusoe

Author:William Baziotes

“To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.”

Fool Opportunist Forethought

Book:Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents

“True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.”

Knows Should Wise Failing Fool Compromise Nonsense True Wisdom

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.”

Doe Seems Half Company Fool Wit Clever Deprived Cleverness

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.”

Sports Wise Fool Contempt Dread Scandal

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!”

Mean Self Dies Poor Pieces Fool Suicide Things To Do Heroism Slaughter Better Things To Do

Author:George Darley

“The fact that many people overindulge, and lose themselves in excess, and make fools of themselves and act like idiots, is no reason for me to do these things. The reason for me to do these things is that I, too, am an idiot.”

People Reason Facts Loses Fool Idiot No Reason Excess

Author:John S. Hall

“One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.”

Knows Trying Knowledge Fool Perception Depth Cards Thorough Anatomy Silhouettes Thorough Knowledge

Author:Ugo Mochi

“Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.”

Destiny Fate Fool Tools Eternity Soldier Champion

Author:Michael Moorcock

“For you maybe I'm a fool but it's fun. People say you rule me with one wave of your hand. Darling, it's grand, they just don't understand.”

People Hands Fun Fool Wave Darling

Author:Leo Robin

“The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.”

People Firsts Real Enough Fool Zombie

Book:Magic for Beginners

Source: Magic for Beginners

“I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo!”

Left Fool Fairs Queens Alas Inconstancy

Author:George Wither

“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .”

World Needs Mind Heart Has Beens Stills Shows Body Turns Passion Known Knowing Fool Cold Kings Longing New World Stubborn Sweetness Ache Exile Beggar Risen Treason Wild Passion

Author:R. S. Thomas

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