“When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.” WorldBigsSchoolGirlLeftCuttingRegretFoolAround The WorldAustraliaBloodyLife Regret Author:Ben Nicholson
“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.” IfsShouldSoulPainLeftCryFoolQuietWeightAdversityComplainingTheeGrievingMatesHelplessWretchedUnkindBruisedBereft Book:The Complete Works Source: The Complete Works
“...it may be that there is no God, that the existence of all that is beautiful and in any sense good is but the accidental and ineffective byproduct of blindly swirling atoms, that we are alone in a world that cares nothing for us or for the values that we create and sustain - that we and they are here for a moment only, and gone, and that eventually there will be left no trace of us in the universe. A man may well believe that this dredful thing is true. But only the fool will say in his heart that he is glad that it is true.” ThinkingMenWorldBelieveWellsHeartMayMomentsCareBeautifulValuesUniverseLeftExistenceGoneFoolGladAtomsThere Is No God Author:Sterling M. McMurrin
“On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.” IfsMenShouldLeftMy OwnPrinciplesHe ManWindFoolRepublicanStandingAbuseBillsClintonMy TimeDevicesStationsBusFairnessUnfairPointingHideousChili Author:Molly Ivins
“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.” MenSaidPlayFactsWantedSchoolFatherLeftStageFootballFoolAssPro Football Author:Bill Cosby
“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!” LeftFoolFairsQueensAlasInconstancy Author:George Wither
“There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.” StatesLeftDoubtFoolElementsHollywoodOrganizationPoliceNo DoubtBroadwayPolice State Book:Elia Kazan: Interviews Source: Elia Kazan: Interviews
“Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.” EndsLeftSupportFoolLawyerIgnorantAsylumsLawsuitObstinate Author:Jeremy Bentham
“Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.” MenWayGivingMindDiesCoursesLeftHoursWiseFoolIllEnvySatireStrifeMaliceBosomsDiscretionOpposingVigorHeadstrong Author:Charles Churchill
“Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.” Has BeensMightLeftHeavenWomenHellMankindFoolDevilToolsAdamThreatenedTorment Author:George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
“As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!” MenMindInspirationLeftWiseWrittenMankindFoolBirdInstinctTerrorBeastMadmenDecree Author:Baruch Spinoza
“Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.” PeopleSoulAmericaPastPoliticalPassionLeftPowerfulCenturyEmotionalFoolCapitalismHatredLogicFunctionMythSocialismHatefulEnviousAnti SemitismScapegoatRecessAmericanismBlameless Author:Michael Gove
“A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.” IfsLeftPresidentRealizingChanceFailingPositionFoolKingsOfficeMinistersPrimePrime Minister Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't necessary. The year went by and we realized it hadn't done any good, that the money still ended up in the hands of the rich industrialists or friends of the bankers. So I concluded that it was necessary to nationalize the banks. And we did. Without considering it a socialist gesture or an antisocialist gesture, just a necessary one. Anyone who nationalizes only so as to be considered on the left to me is a fool.” IfsGivingYearsStillsDoneHandsLeftRichFoolSucceedCompromiseGesturesSocialistConsideringBankers Author:Indira Gandhi
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.” MenHumansSaidWould BeChoicesFallJesusLeftLevelsMoralLordHellTeacherFeetHe ManSonFoolDevilDemonNonsenseEggsSpitMadmenLunaticPatronizingPoached Eggs Author:C. S. Lewis
“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.” ThinkingMenFactsAgeTimeLeftExampleYouthFoolPraiseAgingOld Man Author:Alexander Pope
“On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.” ThinkingKnowsHappensLeftFoolAmountElsewhere Book:Elsewhere Source: Elsewhere
“I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.” ThinkingWorldLastsLeftGoneWorstFoolWorst Things Author:Marilynne Robinson
“All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz” MenEndsMatterWholeMomentsLeftPiecesCuttingEventsWindFoolWalkingPrisonMetaphorWhole LifeDay To DayBizarreMoronContinuance Author:Robin Hobb
“I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.” LeftFoolUnderstoodStaringGlimpseBruises Author:Kelley Armstrong