“You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.” MadeStoriesEnergyCompanyBoysSeaFieldsFoolSingingUnionsWorkersDuesOilAlternativesListen To MeOil Field Author:Woody Guthrie
“When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.” IfsMenWayLoveFeelsHas BeensStoriesThreeLove IsWifeConditionsMastersFoolKingsMarriedLet MeMadnessFortyWarningTemperDeliciousThree TimesWisestMarried LifeBeen In LoveSolomonPretty Woman Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
“There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light.” StoriesLightFoundStudentsBuddhismFoolSeekingRingsRamaApprenticeDon JuanJuan Author:Frederick Lenz
“A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.” ShouldWellsStoriesSeemsSleepWiseFoolPleaseApplauseDeviateConcise Author:Benjamin Stillingfleet
“Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like a story, but you can't fool an audience ever. They know when you have it and they know when you don't.” KnowsHumansMayStoriesAudienceFoolGood Story Author:Aaron Sorkin
“If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.” IfsKnowsMadeStoriesAgeFiveFoolMythMade Up Stories Author:Suetonius
“I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.” WayLooksRealStoriesRunningMediaFoolPureJournalismAdvocacyMaking UpIndescribableReal Story Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.” PeopleSelfStoriesUsePoliticalPoliticsWaterFreedomLearningFoolOughtHabitPoliticianFitWorthySwimEvidentPropositionsMaxims4th Of JulyJulyIndependence DayIndependence Day PatrioticJuly 4th 1776Usa Patriotic4th Of July InspirationalFourth Of July InspirationalJuly 4 Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.” IdeasStoriesForceFoolEasierSpreadCorpsesBrutesFragilityBrute Force Author:Simone Weil
“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.” PeopleIfsMenTryingEnoughStoriesHappensAdventureFoolTales Book:Nausea Source: Nausea
“[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.” MenStoriesLaughingFoolWineDancingAlcoholLungsWisestLeading MeBest WineWisest ManWine And LoveWine LoveWine Tasting Book:The odyssey Source: The odyssey
“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.” LifeStoriesSpecialFoolHeroLoversVillainFavouriteCheer UpVendetta Author:Alan Moore
“Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, can’t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates — or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?” PeopleIfsThinkingEndsMatterStoriesHandsNamesAnimalStupidDivineFoolOffersBirdNotionDinnerGuidanceChickensAdamPlatesContinuingTurkeysStupid PeopleSauceCowardlyRibsBarbecueCategorizationDivine GuidanceKfcBarbecue SauceDinner Plates Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.” HeartMeanStoriesBodyPastLostSocialSleepGraceFoolHabitOneselfLove StoryConsumingSullenSocial Graces Book:The English Patient Source: The English Patient
“Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but weariness as I watch the approach of one more episode in the old, tired story of men who try to beat life, the smart ones who think they know it all and die with a look of surprise on their faces: at the final moment they always see the truth - they never really understood anything, never held anything in their hands. An old story, old and boring.” ThinkingKnowsMenFeelsTryingLooksHas BeensMomentsStoriesHandsFacesDiesWatchesWorryFoolApproachSmartBeatsUnderstoodTiredSurpriseFinalsBoringEpisodesWearinessKnow It All Author:Álvaro Mutis