No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool
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Related No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a kna... GEORGE SAVILE To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY None are so busy as the fool and knave. JOHN DRYDEN Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his ... HENRY FIELDING if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI More knave than fool. CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool. VOLTAIRE Now I will show myself
To have more of the serpent than the dove;
That is--more knave than foo... CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know. DEBASISH MRIDHA He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool. KARL G. MAESER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY He who praises me on all occasions is a fool who despises me or a knave who wishes to cheat me CHINESE PROVERBS To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who ... WILLIAM HAZLITT A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who d... WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Titles are marks of honest men, and wise:
The fool or knave that wears a title lies. EDWARD YOUNG Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are... CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are... C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are... CHARLES H. SPURGEON Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a... JONATHAN SWIFT He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. GEORGE BERKELEY Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
Hast thou ... GEORGE HERBERT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit;
sometimes so long, that there is no ... THOMAS FULLER There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e... ANN RADCLIFFE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So ... RICHARD FEYNMAN He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good ... WILLIAM WYCHERLEY You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first... CARL GUSTAV JUNG I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self evident thing is a Knave. WILLIAM BLAKE Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to... JOSEPH CANNON Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... BEN JONSON A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunk... JOE CANNON No creature smarts so little as a fool. ALEXANDER POPE When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin. GEORGE HERBERT Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN
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