“God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.” KnowsGodSchoolChurchHeardFoolGoodnessSaintTheeDesertGod Knows Author:Matthew Arnold
“The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.” MenWorldPleasureFoolSaintBe A ManPiousForsakeSneer Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.” MenAgeHonestFoolCharitySaintPenniesHonest ManCopper Author:Taylor Caldwell
“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.” PeopleThinkingPlayFoolSaintVainPriestsCowboySpyMartyrRottenTraitorEspionageDrunkardsProcessionPansies Author:John le Carre
“"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"” KnowsSaidDifferencesFoolSaintLawyer Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are all possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.” IfsWayYearsFirstsSaidWantedValuesThreeBitsWaitingSawsPiecesImagineHairFoolNeededSaintRefuseBonesDividedThree YearsPossessedImagine ThatNailsTrimming Book:The End of the Affair Source: The End of the Affair