#fool

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.' ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#always #changes #character #doing #entertain

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

#damn #damn fool #fool #gullible #imaginative

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#first #fool #last #ridicule

I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#also #anything #back #back up #dear

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#both #child #could #ear #fool

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

#difference #finger #fool #man #only

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#fool #fooled #thinks #who

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. ↗

— Sophocles

#indeed #sister #wickedness

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#been #black #fools #group #never

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream. This is a common experience with all of us. And so it was that I, the modern, often entered into my dreaming, and in the consequent strange dual personality was both actor and spectator. And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive. ↗

— Jack London

#duality #foolishness #modern #primitive #self