#fool

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#almost #back #become #better #close

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#action #been #few #foolish #many

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#damn #damn fool #except #first #fool

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#because #exalted #fool #gold #his

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools. ↗

— Og Mandino

#fools #found #only #tomorrow

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#foolish #heat #off #starts #turn

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. ↗

— Og Mandino

#concentrates #foolishly #great #great man #her

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for! ↗

— Marcus Valerius Martial

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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#more #reader #take #than #unsafe