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“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.”

“Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation.”

Way Needs Looks Different Lost Common Hell Fool Crosses Salvation Different Ways Pretending

Author:Rich Mullins

“It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.”

Ifs Knows Needs Mind Heart May Soul Numbers Objects Fool Highest Empty Perceive Exterior Great Souls

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“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

“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.”

Needs Hands Faces Poetry Land Youth Poet Fool All Things Driven Crafts Distraction One Time Verses Toil Accustomed Seeming

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“It needs brains to be a real fool.”

Needs Real Brain Fool

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain.”

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Book:The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy

Source: The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy

“When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.”

Needs Feels Made Pride Fool Horse

Author:Patricia Wentworth

“I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.”

People Needs Advice Fool Smart I've Learned Amazing People

Author:Alicia Keys

“Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.”

Men Needs Looks Made Fool Blame Insurmountable Blame Someone

Author:Julia Quinn

“All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.”

Way Needs Education Fool Lists Yesterday

Book:Too Much College; Or, Education Eating Up Life: With Kindred Essays in Education and Hummour

Source: Too Much College; Or, Education Eating Up Life: With Kindred Essays in Education and Hummour

“Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.”

World Life Needs Fun Loses This World Fool Sticks Welcome Tonight Bites Swimming Pool Champagne Virginity Proximity Swimming Pool

Author:Les Claypool

“I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.”

Needs Fool Goes On Tired

Author:Carl Jung

“Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.”

Needs War Fool Cost Oneself Nuclear Rising Weaponry

Book:Peace on Earth

Source: Peace on Earth

“There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Mind Time Common Security Fool Gratitude Accounts Debt Our Time My Time Civility

Author:Seneca the Younger

“As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.””

People Men Needs Said Wise Fool Excuse Mess April Wise Man Once Said April Fools Day April Fools Fools Day

Author:Al Yankovic

“I do not play games, but always just say what's on my mind. Ostentatious modesty - for fools. If a man afraid of your honesty, it means that he is not the one you need.”

Ifs Men Needs Mind Mean Play Games Honesty Fool Modesty Ostentatious

Author:Mila Kunis

“Only fools need suffer to learn.”

Needs Suffering Fool

Book:Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield

Source: Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield

“Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition? Who'd be the fool in my position? Once I had dreams, now they're obsessions. Hopes became needs, lovers possessions. Then they move in, oh so discretely. Slowly at first, smiling too sweetly. I opened doors, they walked right through them. Called me their friend, I hardly knew them... Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Times have been good, fast, entertaining. But what's the point if I'm concealing not only love, all other feeling.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Has Beens Feelings Dream Moving Doors Position Fool Lovers Ambition Possession Complaining Obsession Entertaining Only Love I Had A Dream Concealing Need Love Opened Doors

Author:Tim Rice

“I fool around with guitar and I can fool around on piano. I don't really play either instrument although I can play a couple of songs on guitar. You don't really need to be able to play to compose. There are many composers and arrangers who work out of their heads.”

Needs I Can Play Able Song Fool Couple Instruments Guitar Work Out Piano Composer

Author:Frankie Laine

“I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.”

People Thinking Needs Kind I Can Ideas Real Fool Vague Foils

Author:Dan Bejar

“I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.”

People Ifs World Want Needs Giving Ends Reality Would Be Wanted Order Belief Levels Worst Fool Illusion Spectrum Fooled Virtual Reality

Author:Vik Muniz

“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”

Men Needs Fool Clever Manage Foolishness Very Clever Clever Man Clever Woman

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Believe Kind I Can Character Shows Action Together Fun Fool Projects Paid Incentives

Author:Elmore Leonard

“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.”

Needs Should Soul Character Night Fighting Winning Party Inspire Fool Battle Losing

Author:William Butler Yeats

“The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.”

“The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.”

Men World Needs Desire Wish Fool Affair Honour Toil Trickery Deference

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

“a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.”

Source: The Dharma Bums

“But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that many friends. The things you’re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451