Pastoral Resources

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.