Quotable Quotes (14 page)

W
E ALL KNOW A FOOL . . .

 

We all know a fool when we see one—but not when we are one.

—
A
RNOLD
H
.
G
LASOW

 

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

—
L
AURENCE
J
.
P
ETER

Peter's Almanac

 

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

—
A
RISTOTLE

 

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

—
C
OLETTE

 

April 1 is the day upon which we are reminded what we are on the other 364.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

—
A
FRICAN PROVERB

 

Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it.

—
R
OBERTINE
M
AYNARD

 

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

—
C
HINESE SAYING

 

Astrology proves one scientific fact, and one only; there's one born every minute.

—
P
ATRICK
M
OORE

 

Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or the cook.

—
H
ARRY
O
LIVER

Desert Rat Scrap Book

 

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

—
H
ERBERT
S
PENCER

Essays

 

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

—
D
OUG
L
ARSON

 

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

—
P
AUL
S
WEENEY

 

 

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain—and most do.

—
D
ALE
C
ARNEGIE

How to Win Friends and Influence People

 

Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.

—
Pocket Crossword Puzzles

 

Follies change their type but foolishness remains.

—
E
RICH
K
ASTNER

 

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

—
G
EORGE
E
LIOT

 

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

—
H
ARRY
S
.
T
RUMAN

 

Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory.

—
G
.
B
EHN

 

A fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

—
W
INSTON
C
HURCHILL

 

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.

—
G
ERALD
W
.
G
RUMET,
MD

in
Readings

 

There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.

—
A
FRICAN PROVERB

 

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

—
M
ALCOLM
S
.
F
ORBES

 

Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything.

—
D
ON
M
ARQUIS

 

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

—
W
ILLIAM
D
EAN
H
OWELLS

 

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one-and-a-half times his own weight in other people's patience.

—
J
OHN
U
PDIKE

Assorted Prose

 

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

—
G
ERALD
B
RENAN

 

A bore is a fellow talker who can change the subject to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

—
L
AURENCE
J
.
P
ETER

Peter's Quotations

 

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

—
M
AX
B
EERBOHM

 

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back or a fool from any side.

—
Y
IDDISH PROVERB

 

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.

—
M
ARTIN
L
UTHER

 

L
OST BY INDIFFERENCE 
. . .

 

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

—
R
OBERT
G
ORDON
M
ENZIES

 

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.

—
B
ODIE
T
HOENE

 

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

—
L
IBBIE
F
UDIM

 

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate—it's apathy.

—
L
EO
B
USCAGLIA

Love

 

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men have something worth fighting for, they do not feel like fighting.

—
E
RIC
H
OFFER

The True Believer

 

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

—
J
UAN
M
ONTALVO

 

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.

—
V
ACLAV
H
AVEL

 

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

—
B
ARRY
F
ARBER

 

G
ROW ANGRY SLOWLY 
. . .

 

Grow angry slowly—there's plenty of time.

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

—
R
OBERT
G
.
I
NGERSOLL

 

Anger is not only inevitable, it is necessary. Its absence means indifference, the most disastrous of all human failings.

—
A
RTHUR
P
ONSONBY

 

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

—
J
OAN
R
IVERS

Still Talking

 

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

—
M
AGGIE
S
CARF

in
The New York Times Magazine

 

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way—that is not easy.

—
A
RISTOTLE

 

Anger is a bad counselor.

—
F
RENCH PROVERB

 

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.

—
N
EIL
K
INNOCK

 

There's a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it's a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow.

—
H
UGH
A
LLEN

 

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

—
B
OOKER
T
.
W
ASHINGTON

 

My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.

—
J
OSEPH
H
UNTER

 

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

—
C
.
S
.
L
EWIS

Mere Christianity

 

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

—
A
NTHONY
S
HAFTESBURY

 

Temper is a quality that at a critical moment brings out the best in steel and the worst in people.

—
W
ILLIAM
P
.
G
ROHSE

 

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

—
W
ALTER
W
ECKLER

 

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

—
I
SAAC
A
SIMOV

 

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

—
F
RANCIS
B
ACON

 

Getting even throws everything out of balance.

—
J
OE
B
ROWNE

in Post-Gazette
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

 

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

—
S
YDNEY
J
.
H
ARRIS

 

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

—
J
AMES
B
ALDWIN

 

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

—
W
ILLIAM
H
.
W
ALTON

 

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.

—
S
TANLEY
H
OROWITZ

 

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

—
C
HINESE PROVERB

 

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

—
A
MBROSE
B
IERCE

 

Hot words make a real cool friendship.

—
F
LO
A
SHWORTH

in
Advertiser & News
(Dawsonville, Georgia)

 

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

—
J
ACQUELINE
S
CHIFF

in
National Enquirer

 

G
OSSIP NEEDN'T BE FALSE 
. . .

 

Gossip needn't be false to be evil—there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

There is nothing busier than an idle rumor.

—
H
ERBERT
V
.
P
ROCHNOW

The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom

 

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

—
P
ICO
I
YER

in
Time

 

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

—
E
THEL
W
ATTS

 

A gossip is a person who creates the smoke in which other people assume there's fire.