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Tag Name "Fools" (760)

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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
William Congreve
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
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The solemn fop significant and budge A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
William Cowper
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No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William Faulkner
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There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.
William Gerhardie
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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.
Aldous Huxley
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
William Hazlitt
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
William Hazlitt
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There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.
Albert Einstein
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
Albert Einstein
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
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It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.
KRS-One
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[They say] We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it. You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.
William of Conches
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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
William Penn
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Only fools and passengers drink at sea.
Alan Villiers
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This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
William Shakespeare
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan Perlis
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
William Shakespeare
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Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
William Shakespeare
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Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
Alan Brennert
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I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
William Shakespeare
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Wishers were ever fools.
William Shakespeare
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O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.
Al-Maʿarri
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