#fool

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#fine #fool #hand #man #pebble

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

#another woman #fool #her #him #make

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#another woman #fool #her #him #make

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#half #man #more #same #some

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#even #foolproof #his #impress #knew

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#beings #believe #believes #biological #classification

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#certain #doubts #fanatics #fools #full

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. ↗

— Richard Russo

#fool #how #i #movie #nobody

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#cannot #care #fool #i #i care

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool. ↗