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dc11eb3 I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. humor self-irony self-confidence fool Edgar Allan Poe
14f8c3f Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it. humor conformity law rule foolishness fool rules Henry David Thoreau
1c02b53 "I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it... I can't eat another bite." men marraige o-hara scarlett unnatural married stupid fool Margaret Mitchell
92ef0a9 Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor. love tumor rose fool Christopher Moore
19bb3eb Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us. shame fool Stephen King
58720eb Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. intelligence holmes sherlock thriller fool Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
b423fc4 We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool. educational jack-goldenberg foolishness foolish fool Bob Marley
0087470 Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand. ostrich fool Samuel Beckett
7ce91f1 I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. fool William Faulkner
a0ddb8e The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson. magic myrrhtide lesson fool Tamora Pierce
d18ba5f Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents. feste fool William Shakespeare
5b22661 "What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?" fool Christopher Moore
6f7789c Love? Sodding, bloody, tossing, bloody, sodding, bloody love? Irrelevant, superfluous, bloody, ruddy, rotten, sodding love? What ho? Wherefore? What the f*ck? Love? fool Christopher Moore
88ca494 Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both. truth-telling people lives fool James Baldwin
f5ae23f The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul Robin Hobb
0a8bbfb Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should do, like wash my hair, or not wear yellow. But (...) I like him. He mocks me, but from him, it seems a kindness. He makes me feel, well, important. That he could choose me to talk to. fool Robin Hobb
73e9fdb Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled. fooled loki anger trick fool Neil Gaiman
3b681ab Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. marriage death humor love olivia twelfth-night wedding fool William Shakespeare
cb5e48f God save me from fools with a little philosophy--no one is more difficult to reach. philosophy fool Epictetus
7dbed0a "Ydych chi'n cymryd cerdynnau credid?" said the highwayman, no doubt trying to frighten me further, his consonants chained like anal beads strung out of hell's own bunghole." consonants fool Christopher Moore
8681ac5 Please, help me. Young werewolves in love. I turned to walk into the house, moving carefully. I had never much believed in God. Well, that's not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or something close enough to it to warrant the name if there were demons, there had to be angels, right? If there was a Devil, somewhere, there had to be a God. But He & I had never really seen things in quite the same terms. All the same. I flashed a look up at the ceiling. I didn't say or think any words, but if God was listening, I hoped he got the message nonetheless. I didn't want of these children getting themselves killed. moon files fool-moon jim dresden fool Jim Butcher
57d3e28 There's something stalking us. Off to the side of the road, moving through the forest.' Kettricken smiled. wolf kettricken fitz hunt nighteyes fool Robin Hobb
e5d6c3c A hundred brilliant witticisms died suffocating on the captain's heavy glove. Thus muted, I pumped my codpiece at the duke and tried to force a fart, but my bum tumpet could find no note. fool Christopher Moore
51e40a0 "But what's left on earth that I haven't tried?" Prince Lir demanded. "I have swum four rivers, each in full flood and none less than a mile wide. I have climbed seven mountains never before climbed, slept three nights in the Marsh of the Hanged Men, and walked alive out of that forest where the flowers burn your eyes and the nightingales sing poison. I have ended my betrothal to the princess I had agreed to marry -- and if you don't think that was a heroic deed, you don't know her mother. I have vanquished exactly fifteen black knights waiting by fifteen fords in their black pavilions, challenging all who come to cross. And I've long since lost count of the witches in the thorny woods, the giants, the demons disguised as damsels; the glass hills, fatal riddles, and terrible tasks; the magic apples, rings, lamps, potions, swords, cloaks, boots, neckties, and nightcaps. Not to mention the winged horses, the basilisks and sea serpents, and all the rest of the livestock." He raised his head, and the dark blue eyes were confused and sad. "And all for nothing," he said. "I cannot touch her, whatever I do. For her sake, I have become a hero -- I, sleepy Lir, my father's sport and shame -- but I might as well have remained the dull fool I was. My great deeds mean nothing to her." quest hero fool Peter S. Beagle
7510cab "I'm beginning to wonder," said Kent, sitting down now on an overturned wooden tub. "Who do I serve? Why am I here?" You are here, because, in the expanding ethical ambiguity of our situation, you are steadfast in your righteousness. It is to you, our banished friend, that we all turn--a light amid the dark dealings of family and politics. You are the moral backbone on which the rest of us hang our bloody bits. Without you we are merely wiggly masses of desire writhing in our own devious bile." Really?" asked the old knight. Aye," said I. I'm not sure I want to keep company with you lot, then." morality kent fool Christopher Moore
e403588 Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise. equality sith force fool Drew Karpyshyn
d2e5e3d "Advice, then, young yeoman: When referring to the king's middle daughter, state that she is fair, speculate that she is pious, but unless you'd like to spend your watch looking for the box where your head is kept, resist the urge to wax ignorant on her naughty bits." -Pocket I don't know what that means, sir." -Yeoman Speak not of Regan's shaggacity, son" [...] -Pocket" fool Christopher Moore
65a5534 "Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear." fool Christopher Moore
7710d50 "I'll not have an exchange with an impudent fool." [Oswald] He's not impudent," said Jones [the puppet]. "With proper inspiration, the lad sports a woody as stout as a mooring pin. Ask your lady." I nodded in agreement with the puppet, for he is most wise for having a brain of sawdust. Impudent! Impudent! Not impotent!" said Oswald, frothing a bit now." fool Christopher Moore
33d15a2 "I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. "You do love me !" I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. "Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of pity. But you are truly my friend. This is knowing. This is feeling what you feel for me. So this is the Skill". For a moment he reveled in simple recognition." skill fitzchivalry-farseer robin-hobb fitz fool Robin Hobb
f413a65 Because your heart will be hammered against him, and your strength will be tempered in his fire. smithy old-wit fool Robin Hobb
1c2c4a0 "[...] Y'know, the Duchess Regan is living here at the tower now? I took your advice about not talking about her boffnacity [footnote], even with the duke dead and all, can't be too careful. Although, I caught sight of her in a dressing gown one day she was up on the parapet outside her solar. Fine flanks on that princess, despite the danger of death and all for sayin' so, sir." -Yeomen Aye, the lady is fair, and her gadonk as fine as frog fur [...]" -Pocket footnote: Boffnacity: an expression of shagnatiousness, fit. from the Latin boffusnatious" fool Christopher Moore
e932af8 Soon a whole guild of low-priced shrine keepers around Europe named their own pope - Boldface the Relatively Shameless, Discount Pope of Prague. The price war was on [...] The Retail Pope would offer cheesy bacon toppings on the Host with communion and the Discount Pope would counter with topless nun night for midnight mass. fool Christopher Moore
f550ab6 And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need. song hap wolf-of-the-west hunt nighteyes fool Robin Hobb
526ab67 "Not yet!" said she [Goneril], trying to roll me over and get back to smacking my bum. She honked my codpiece. You honked my codpiece." Aye, give it up, fool." [...]" fool Christopher Moore
2ae3416 Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it. fool Robin Hobb
fb90b81 We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread. heart imagine head fitz smile fool longing Robin Hobb
df5a512 When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. truth dissemble moron reveal hide lie fool Robin Hobb
9bd65b9 You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool. happiness love fool Don DeLillo
e18714c The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt. time pain measure passage realization realize hurt fitz knowledge hit fool Robin Hobb
c511c04 Those were some astounding lies, cub. And the very last one the most inspired of all. You have your father's talent for it. lies love cub fitz nighteyes fool Robin Hobb
a4f5907 He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt! nighteyes the-hunt fool Robin Hobb
25925b4 Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must enter those jaws. dutiful kettricken rainwilds fitzchivalry-farseer robin-hobb fitz dragon fool Robin Hobb
95f479c I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it. fool Ernest Hemingway
c553aa1 "And not only the world but humanity itself does need dragons" "And why is that?" Chade demanded disdainfully. "To keep the balance," the Fool replied. He glanced over me, and then past me, out of the window and his eyes went far and pensive. "Humanity fears no rivals. You have forgotten what it was to share the world with creatures as arrogantly superior as yourselves. You think to arrange the world to your liking. So you map the land and draw lines across it, claiming ownership simply because you can draw a picture of it. The plants that grow and the beasts that rove, you mark as your own, claiming not only what lives today, but what might grow tomorrow, to do with as you please. Then, in your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face." "And I suppose dragons are better than we are because they don't do such things, because they simply take whatever they see. Free spirits, nature's creatures, possessing all the moral loftiness that comes from not being able to think." The Fool shook his head, smiling. "No. Dragons are no better than humans. They are little different at all from men. They will hold up a mirror to humanity's selfishness. They will remind you that all your talk of owning this and claiming that is no more than the snarling of a chained dog or a sparrow's challenge song. The reality of those claims lasts but for the instant of its sounding. Name it as you will, claim it as you will, the world does not belong to men. Men belong to the world. You will not own the earth that eventually your body will become, nor will it recall the name it once answered to." humanity fantasy fitzchivalry-farseer the-fool dragons fool Robin Hobb
1fdaf2d His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved. He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool. sorrow death love whole fitz nighteyes together fool Robin Hobb
4abf762 His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. 'Beloved.' He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool. sorrow death love whole fitz fool Robin Hobb
9ebcf5b He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt! love fitz hunt nighteyes the-hunt together fool Robin Hobb
9349ad2 The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger. wisdom dupe fool John Fowles
f89ddc9 "I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness, good stupidity religion intelligence philosophy wisdom holiness fool William Blake
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