Fool Quotes - Page 28

• We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

  Charles Bukowski

  Country, War, Hero

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.475, Canongate Books

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• It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

  T. S. Eliot

  Destiny, Risk, Finding Yourself

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• I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Believe, Men, Wicked

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Kidnapped: Stevenson's Vol. 23”, p.80, VM eBooks

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• As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  School, Ignorance, Mean

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stupid, Believe, People

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Humanity, Mind, World

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (1959). “Against nature: a new translation of À rebours”

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• I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hangover, Sophie, Rescue

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• They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin'..." He laughed. "I reckon I ain't very forgivin', son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God's will jest has to do with sufferin' and dyin', they done missed the whole point.

  Olive Ann Burns

  Good Love, Hypocrite, Son

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• People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

  Terry Goodkind

  Motivation, Lying, Stupid

  "Wizard's First Rule". Book by Terry Goodkind, 1994.

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• "How did you - " "Fool your guards? They're not very good. They forgot to check the ceiling for spiders." Valek grinned. His angular face softened.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Ceilings, Spiders, Faces

  "Magic Study (The Chronicles of Ixia, Study series, Book 2)". Book by Maria V. Snyder, October 2006.

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• Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mother, Liars, Believe

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• Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

  Eric Clapton

  Love You, World, Upside Down

  Song: Layla

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• Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.

  Mark Helprin

  War, Thinking, Government

  Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only fools want to be great.

  T. H. White

  Want

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.159, Penguin

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• In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political education and legal fights, at times it will require education and the establishment of alternatives to abortion, such as adoption centers. Unfortunately, such measures are sometimes opposed by so-called hard-liners in the pro-life movement. These hard-liners are fools. Because they want to outlaw all abortions, they refuse to settle for stopping some abortions; the consequence is that they end up preventing no abortions.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Fighting, Views, Numbers

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• Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Memories, Real

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.219, Harper Collins

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• I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Cards, Matter

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do not join the dance, we will know you are a fool. But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying. if you dance badly to begin and we laugh, what is the sin in that? We will begin there.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Dancing, Laughing

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• What-ifs are for fools

  Obert Skye

  Ifs

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• Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Careers, History, Genius

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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• The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Teaching, Hands

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• More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

  William Shakespeare

  Knows

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• To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

  Louis L'Amour

  Age

  Louis L'Amour (2015). “Sitka: A Novel”, p.63, Bantam

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• [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.

  Homer

  Wine, Men, Wisest Man

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.481, Penguin

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• choose now," he spat, his eyes practically shooing sparks. "me or him." gosh,Fang, you romantic fool," i said sarcastically."howw incredibly sexist pig of you.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Pigs, Sparks

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