“Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!” HumansHardWisdomSleepFoolSorrowAdvantageBoatStreamsVesselFree Yourself Book:The Way of the Bodhisattva Source: The Way of the Bodhisattva
“I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.” WorldWantYearsMindSometimesHardForeverFoolHeroOver YouUp And DownKnightsHard ThingsBeing Myself Book:The Fairyland Series Source: The Fairyland Series
“People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalStillsHardDonePlayHard WorkFoolGeniusLimitsSmartPlentyProductiveAttemptingWork DoneTrue Genius Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.” MenHardFacesEasyTermFoolDepthNosesVillainCheeksStanding OutRoguesKnavesBlockheads Author:John Dryden
“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.” MenHardPhilosophySeemsTodayFoundFeltEnemyDangerousGreatnessFoolTomorrowConscienceIdealsTasksMarkExtraordinaryPhilosopherContradictionDisagreeableUnwantedQuestion Mark Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.” PeopleSaidHardEnoughMightRunningMissingFoolExcitementBrownAestheticConceit Author:Donald Barthelme
“The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.” IfsThinkingMayCountryHardPartyDangerFoolReturnStandingMajorityConservativeOutcomesParadiseLabourAlliesPersist Author:Austen Chamberlain