#fool

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

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. ↗

— Orson Welles

#figure #fool #girlfriend #her #husband

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#always #before #everything #fool #lot

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ↗

— Plato

#deceived #foolish #ignorance #imitation #knowledge

If a fool plants a beautiful garden, is he still a fool? ↗

— Marty Rubin

#creating-beauty #folly #beauty

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue. ↗

— Dee Remy

#cowardly #death #foolish #life #loss

Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#robin-hobb #the-fool #dreams

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#humility #progress

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. ↗

— Aristophanes

#disagreement #foolishness #men #quarrel #wisdom