Fooling Quotes (page 40)

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• spring
• world
• saying

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.' 'What it do when it pissed off?' I ast. 'Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.' 'Yeah?' I say. 'Yeah,' she say. 'It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect.' 'You mean it want to be loved, just like the bible say.' 'Yes, Celie,' she say.... Alice Walker

• wise
• wise man
• manly

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows. Neil Gaiman

• god
• look
• fools

God looks out for fools and niggers. Ken Kesey

• philosophy
• study
• cost

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• time
• wisdom
• age

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom. Louis L'Amour

• courage
• fear
• fearless

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous [He is also a fool.]. Robert A. Heinlein

• world
• attention
• letting

You can't argue with the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. Terry Goodkind

• drinking
• wisdom
• knowledge

I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is. Joan D. Vinge

• home
• should
• combine

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home. Jimmy Buffett

• thinking
• logic
• does

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does. Douglas Adams

• god
• power god
• women

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one. Sylvia Plath

• wise
• wise man
• manly

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. Wilkie Collins

• learning
• science
• fools

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. Richard P. Feynman

• wise
• dirty
• snake

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, -in me dove, snake and swine convene! Friedrich Nietzsche

• business
• busy
• businesses

None are so busy as the fool and knave. John Dryden