Pastoral Resources

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.