#fool

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

#fool #god #i #i am #must

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

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them. ↗

— Alfred Sutro

#always #else #foolishness #our #pay

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fool #i #kiss #knew #nose

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#every #fool #guard #hour #jealous

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#every #fool #handsome #irresistible #ladies

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#best #better #doubt #foolishly #love