Pastoral Resources

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.