House Of Fools Quotes

#1. The thoughts of the wise are in the house of mourning, but the thoughts of fools are in the house of pleasure" (CJB, Ecclesiastes 7:4).

H.W. Charles

#2. I'm not a wild card, Noah. I'm the safest bet you'll ever make.

Sarah Darlington

#3. You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

Albert Camus

#4. Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.

Robert Breault

#5. 4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

Anonymous

#6. Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Marjane Satrapi

#7. I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools.

Bennett Cerf

#8. Archetypes are the psychic lenses through which we view ourselves and the world around us.

Caroline Myss

#9. Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Walker Evans

#10. Besides, she has always a house full of people; and, though they are chiefly fools and coxcombs, yet there is some pleasure in cutting them up.

Fanny Burney

#11. Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#12. The thing I love watching most is the swirling cotton candy. The contraption for making it is like a flat-bottomed pan. One puts sugar in it, turns the crank, and after a while, a large shimmering ball emerges; it's like cotton - and like silk, too. Indeed, there's nothing lovelier.

Can Xue

#13. But, in order to feel joy and love on a grander scale and experience such magnificence, we must be open to feel all things.

Camille Lucy

#14. Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

Jean Chretien

#15. I just swallow hard.
Nod and smile.
One foot in front of the other.
I'm fine, thanks for not asking.

Sarah Ockler

#16. So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...

David Lindsay-Abaire

#17. The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

Euripides

#18. The more you know about another person's story, the less possible it is to see that person as your enemy.

Parker J. Palmer

#19. Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Mary Roach

#20. Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

Sarah Kay

#21. I don't even know if you're allowed to say this. But just like you can't be a little bit pregnant, you also can't be a little bit spread.

Gary Danielson