Pastoral Resources

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?