Pastoral Resources

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.