Related Quotes
wise men may
Charles Caleb Colton A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
wise money thinking
Charles Caleb Colton It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise art moments
Charles Caleb Colton The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise foolish gravity
Charles Caleb Colton Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
Charles Caleb Colton We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
wise men darkness
Charles Caleb Colton As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
wise men mediocrity
Charles Caleb Colton There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.
play done form
Alan Watts To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
play forget notes
Alan Watts You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
play who-i-am people
Alan Rickman Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
play interesting people
Alan Rickman I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
play pursuit said
Alan Bennett To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
play people mouths
Alan Bennett I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
play theatre audience
Alan Ayckbourn Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
play people tennis
Alan Alda I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
play way causes
Al Sharpton If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
ideas people want
Charles Stanley People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
ideas responsible willing
Alan Perlis Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
ideas brilliant muse
Alan Moore It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.
ideas people comforting
Alan Moore A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.
ideas fabulous breathtaking
Alan Moore Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.
ideas blood flesh
Alan Moore There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
ideas flesh mask
Alan Moore Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
ideas stealing good-ideas
Al Neuharth Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
ideas studios
Akon My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.