A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverb
Archive
Quotes
A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891