#fool

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. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#elderly #fools #good #i #i am

People have the power to redeem the work of fools. ↗

— Patti Smith

#people #power #redeem #work

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. ↗

— Thomas Vernor Smith

#abraham lincoln #death #does #dubbed #fool

A fool is wise in his eyes. ↗

— King Solomon

#fool #his #wise

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. ↗

— King Solomon

#down #first #first step #fools #god

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

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I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. ↗

— Leon Spinks

#dumb #educated #fool #i #know

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. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#certain degree #degree #fear #fools #great

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls? ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#afghanistan #begin #behind #especially #fooling