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- This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), My Study Windows,1899
- Any bride who doesn't suck up to their husband's mother is a fool.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 8, 2010
- Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the courage of their convictions.
- Coventry Patmore
- Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
- William Melbourne
- The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the luke-warm approval of men of intelligence.
- Vauvenargues
- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- I would rather be a philosopher and a coward than a hero and a fool.
- Ambrose Pratt
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