To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom poetry kiss literature breath secret fools fool expectations quotes thoughts expect poetry-quotes kissed quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic bad-breath
Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass -
That secret to each fool - that he's an ass.
The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?),
The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
You think this cruel? Take it for a rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Tag: fools rhyming-verse
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald DahlWe all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.
Rachel WardTag: life truth death living fools end over
Dink, my boy, I'll be a millionaire in ten years. You know what I'm figuring out all this time? I'm going at this scientifically. I'm figuring out the number of fools there are on the top of this globe, classifying 'em, looking out what they want to be fooled on. I'm making an exact science of it."
"Go on," said Dink, amused and perplexed, for he was trying to distinguish the serious and the humorous.
"What's the principle of a patent medicine?—advertise first, then concoct your medicine. All the science of Foolology is: first, find something all the fools love and enjoy, tell them it's wrong, hammer it into them, give them a substitute and sit back, chuckle, and shovel away the ducats. Bread's wrong, coffee's wrong, beer's wrong. Why, Dink, in the next twenty years all the fools will be feeding on substitutes for everything they want; no salt—denatured sugar—anti-tea—oiloline—peanut butter—whale's milk—et cetera, et ceteray, and blessing the name of the fool-master who fooled them.
Tag: diet fools 1912 alternative-health
The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts and questions, while fools are so certain about things.
Shannon L. AlderTag: wisdom certainty dogma fools possibilities stubborness staunchness
There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind—the trifling, jesting buffoon—but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes.
Albion W. TourgéeTag: fools
New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.
Robert FrostThose who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.
Baruch SpinozaTag: truth thinking knowledge nature wonder miracles ignorance understanding philosopher foolish fools gods authority adoration cause causation heresy mob piety preservation astonishment interpret stare heretical impious the-gods
When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.
Shirley JacksonTag: stupidity ideas fools idiots bullies merricat
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