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Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.
A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
I was watching TV, and there was a girl acting a fool. And I was like, 'I could do that.'
There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own
You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
I've got to be aware of what's going on. I can't drink too much or make a fool of myself.
The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.
I didn't fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I'd beaten James DeGale.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.
My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.
If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.
I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.
I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.
Don't fool with machines you're not familiar with - stick with the treadmill and elliptical.
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.