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fool guides
He who is his own guide is guided by a fool. Charles Spurgeon
fool cry-the-beloved-country quiet
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools. Alan Paton
fool
And thus love makes fools of us all. Chris Cleave
foolish young impress
Power always impresses the young and foolish. Darren Shan
fool peculiar bad-mood
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. David D. Burns
fool emotion aim
My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion. Casey Affleck
fool
Wishers were ever fools. William Shakespeare
fool slave life-time
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.
fool slander rail
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27) Horace
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
fools-and-foolishness four pride taxed taxes-and-taxation three twice
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. Benjamin Franklin
fools-and-foolishness money
A fool and his money are soon parted. Thomas Tusser
fools-and-foolishness metals pocket precious uses
RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.
fools-and-foolishness life slave survey takes
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.
fools-and-foolishness minutes takes twenty
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. Helen Rowland
fools-and-foolishness judges maketh
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
fools-and-foolishness high keeps pay people reasons until
There are reasons why people pay for high growth, and they typically overpay. It's a fool's game, and it keeps going until it doesn't keep going.
serious comedy kind
My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. Alan Arkin
serious bits
As you get older, you get a bit more serious. Bryan Ferry
serious repercussions
Repercussions are serious and they will take you places. Bryan Clay
serious asthma
Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma. Cathy Freeman
serious crime negligence
In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.
serious sense-of-humor adore
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues. Benedict Cumberbatch
serious seventeen
No one's serious at seventeen. Arthur Rimbaud
serious sound artistic
Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me. Dee Dee Ramone
serious problem climate-change
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. Bill Nye
strong jobs men
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers. Charles Caleb Colton
strong mind haste
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
strong party reason
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
strong hands monsters
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
strong advice desire
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.
strong passion may
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
strong men thinking
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
strong circles errors
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
strong two mind
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. Charles Dickens
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.