"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him."

Proverb, Persian on fools and foolishness   

"He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress."

Proverb, English on fools and foolishness
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"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."

Heimel, Cynthia on fools and foolishness   

"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society."

Balzac, Honore De on fools and foolishness
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"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

Proverb, African on perseverance
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"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter."

Proverb, African on history and historians
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"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."

Proverb, African on fools and foolishness
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"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."

Reed, Thomas Brackett on fools and foolishness   

"The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many."

Rinehart, Mary Roberts on fools and foolishness   

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

Russell, Bertrand on fools and foolishness
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

May, Rollo on despair
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"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"

Shakespeare, William on despair
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"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

Shakespeare, William on deception
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Lord, what fools these mortals be."

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on fools and foolishness   

"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse."

Charles V on language   

"To have another language is to possess a second soul."

Charlemagne on language
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"Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich."

Frost, Robert on nationalities and nationalism
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

Frost, Robert on education
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

Frost, Robert on happiness
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"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."

Frost, Robert on home
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"A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."

Frost, Robert on liberals   

"Iron hand in a velvet glove."

Charles V on power   

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

Capone, Al on power
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"If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world."

Boseley, Sarah on power   

"Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on power
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"The price of power is responsibility for the public good."

Aldrich, Withrop on power
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Acton, Lord on power
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on power
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"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on adversity
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"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."

Aeschylus on self-reliance
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"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."

Aeschylus on power
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"The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive."

Frost, Robert on lies and lying
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on death
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"A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children."

Unknown, Source on liberals