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Foolishness
«The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective can detect him»
Author: Austin O'Malley
| About:
Crime,
Foolishness
| Keywords:
criminals, detect, detecting, detective, detects, imbecile, imbeciles, imprisoned
«When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.»
Author: Cynthia Heimel
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
acting, brilliantly, creative, doubt, fool, gigantic, hell, hell on earth, idiot, leap, leapt, leap out, line, microscopically, on earth, So What, The Idiot, thin, thinned, thinner, thinnest, thinning, thins
«So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.»
«The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.»
«Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Foolishness,
World
| Keywords:
follies, wanting
«The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.»
«The Family of Fools is ancient»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Foolishness
«The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.»
«The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
costly, follies, occupation, palpably, passionately