#fool

As I drifted along with my bodiless invisibility, I felt myself more and more becoming an empty, floating shape, seeing without being seen and walking without the interference of those grosser creatures who shared my world. It was not an experience completely without interest or even pleasure. The clown's shibboleth of "here we are again" took on a new meaning for me as I felt myself a novitiate of a more rarified order of harlequinry. ("The Last Feast Of The Harlequin") ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

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Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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

— Giacomo Casanova

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Wise men argue causes; fools decide them. ↗

— Anacharsis

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I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#fool #humor #self-confidence #self-irony #faith

I'm beginning to wonder," said Kent, sitting down now on an overturned wooden tub. "Who do I serve? Why am I here?" You are here, because, in the expanding ethical ambiguity of our situation, you are steadfast in your righteousness. It is to you, our banished friend, that we all turn—a light amid the dark dealings of family and politics. You are the moral backbone on which the rest of us hang our bloody bits. Without you we are merely wiggly masses of desire writhing in our own devious bile." Really?" asked the old knight. Aye," said I. I'm not sure I want to keep company with you lot, then. ↗

— Christopher Moore

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There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind—the trifling, jesting buffoon—but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes. ↗

— Albion Winegar Tourgée

#family

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Lord Byron

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You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-wise #decision-making #fools #friendship #rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes