#fools

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. ↗

— Angela Carter

#fools #illusion #whole #world #yet

I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#arises #blockhead #blood #born #company

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#characteristics #fellows #fools #good #good sense

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

#chiefly #fit #flourishes #fools #men

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ↗

— Alice Walker

#appear #appearance #avoid #foolish #foolishness

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#fall #field #flower #fools #fortune

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#among #beings #comes #decide #everybody

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#deserve #entertainment #fools #good #good attitude

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fools #only #peace #services #wartime

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#behind #bigots #fools #front #go