#fool

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

#haste #slowest #thing #world

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#controversy #enemies #fools #issues #motives

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#friends #gets #his #man #more

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#fools #art

A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool. ↗

— Lord Mahāvīra

#attitude #fact #fate #fool #foolish

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#clever #clever man #enough #ever #fool

Huge mammals surrounded us, any one of whom could easily overturn our stupid little boat. Tripod would drown. I would drown. Joe would undoubtedly be rescued by mermaids seduced by his beauty. ↗

— Kristan Higgins

#beauty

optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#beauty

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#foolish #strength #beauty