Friday, February 15, 2008

Fools - christiansquoting.org.uk

I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.

When you argue with a fool, chances are he is doing just the same.

If you argue with an idiot, people watching may not be able to tell who's who.

A fool and his money are soon partying. Bumper sticker

Fools are made, not just born; pretty girls make them in their spare time.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."- James Agate (1877 &endash; 1947)

But human bodies are sic fools,
For a' their colleges and schools,
That when nae real ills perplex them,
They make enow themsels to vex them.
Robert Burns.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men _know_ young men are fools.-- George Chapman, _All Fools_, 1605

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.-- Liz Dubey

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripedes (480 &endash; 406 BC)

Fools grow without watering. -- Thomas Fuller

what ship plays with icebergs
and plays soft music as it sinks into the ocean?
what ship on the throw of a dice
feeds a prophet to his fishy destination?
what ship breaks its spine on the rocks
and turns the waves black with lubrication?
a ship of fools
but there are fools and
those who seem to be

what ship is built on a dry highland
is launched by a downpour
and flies on watery wings to the peak of a mountain?
what ship has a crew
of taxmen thieves and fishermen
who decide in the howling storm
to make a small sleeping carpenter
their captain?

yes
a ship of fools
but there are fools and
those who only appear to be
Simon Jenkins

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. -Charles Lamb

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. -- Groucho Marx

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. -Moliere

"I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools."
"That's strange; your mother could." Dorothy Parker

I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence. - Edgar Allan Poe

Sir, I admit your gen'ral rule
that every poet is a fool:
but you yourself may serve to show it
that every fool is not a poet.
Alexander Pope

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber

Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. ~ Mark Twain, on himself, in Edward Wagenknecht, Mark Twain:The Man and His Work.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. - Thornton Wilder (1897 -1975)

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