“Destiny, n.: A tyrant’s authority for crime and fool’s excuse for failure.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
Tag: fool
Quote of the Day
“To become the great lover, the magnetizer and catalyzer, the blinding focus and inspiration of the world, one has to first experience the profound wisdom of being an utter fool.” — Henry Miller, Sexus
Quote of the Day
“No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise but may easily err, if he will take no others’ counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.” — Ben Jonson, Timber: or, Discoveries made upon men and matter
Quote of the Day
“A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.” — H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
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“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”– Benjamin Disraeli, Count Alarcos: A Tragedy Act IV, sc. i.