Pastoral Resources

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

No one but a fool is always right.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.