How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.