#fool

I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me. ↗

— Howard Finster

#because #buy #credit #did #difference

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#around #bores #feet #fools #genius

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#anyone #bit #both #either #fool

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#another #anything #astronomy #cannot #certain

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#america #been #cannot #education #either

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#hell #man #paradise #wise

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#enough #few #few people #foolishness #knowledge

A fool must now and then be right, by chance. ↗

— William Cowper

#fool #must #now #now and then #right

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#certain #declare #either #fools #inhabitants

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#absolute freedom #become #compensation #fool #freedom