Pastoral Resources

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.