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Tag Name "Simpletons" (8)

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A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
Marquis de Sade
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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
Thucydides
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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
Joel Salatin
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The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
Mark Twain
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
Tennessee Williams
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He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily Grossman