Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.
Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.
There had never been a shortage of fools in the world
I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.
Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.
I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.
When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
the human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon Ship of Fools
Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.
Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.
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