#fools

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#fools #art

Huge mammals surrounded us, any one of whom could easily overturn our stupid little boat. Tripod would drown. I would drown. Joe would undoubtedly be rescued by mermaids seduced by his beauty. ↗

— Kristan Higgins

#beauty

optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#beauty

Fools live life; intellectuals only think thoughts arising from borrowed knowledge. That is why fools enjoy life while so called wise people are busy posting tweets about life. Unfortunately, I am a wise man. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#humor #inspiration #intellctuals #life #motivation

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#actually #always #appearance #been #beings

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#fools #glitter #gold #promises #death

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fools #nuisance #death

We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late ↗

— Dave Eggers

#humor #death

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them. ↗

— Anacharsis

#causes #decide #fools #men #them

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 Winegar Tourgée

#family