#fools

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools. ↗

— Glenn Close

#because #being #difficult #ego #fools

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

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

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. ↗

— Frank Dane

#elected #fools #get #side #you

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise. ↗

— John Gay

#fools #kind #may #our #praise

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. ↗