#fool

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#himself #love #made #man #never

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary. ↗

— Julius Rosenwald

#because #believing #contrary #fooled #into

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. ↗

— George Santayana

#laugh #man #older #older man #savage

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has? ↗

— Blake Shelton

#brothers #fool #gotten #haven #i

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out. ↗

— Thomas Shepard

#foolish #grace #his #love #out

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#else #fooling #i #promote #really

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#plays #poetry #viola #wise #art

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

#cruel #divorce #foolish #grave #her

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#art #bad #bad luck #consists #exploit

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word. ↗

— Caspar Weinberger

#foolish #indeed #ineffective #keep #negotiating