Knaves And Fools Quotes

#1. Three seconds doesn't seem like a long time, but when you're gazing into someone's eyes, it's long enough to make a silent promise.

Renee Carlino

#2. Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#3. Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. I don't really regret anything in my life.

Kristin Cavallari

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

Samuel Butler

#6. If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ...

Rudyard Kipling

#7. It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

Bubba Watson

#8. Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

Andrew Greeley

#9. Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

Jocelyn Murray

#10. Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ...

Charlotte Charke

#11. Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

Michael Bloomberg

#12. If you watch great things, you empower your thought greatly. They that do great things do not only look but they see.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. Money does all things,
for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Roger L'Estrange

#14. Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

Abraham Lincoln

#15. Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

Norm MacDonald

#16. The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

J.C. Ryle

#17. You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Giacomo Casanova

#18. Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

William Hazlitt

#19. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools ...

Rudyard Kipling

#20. Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

Thomas Love Peacock

#21. Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

Francesco Guicciardini

#22. Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

Graydon Carter

#23. Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

Charles Churchill

#24. to do wrong for the wrong's sake only

Edgar Allan Poe

#25. In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Lord Chesterfield

#26. King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.

Sophocles

#27. It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#28. There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is - an assemblage of fools and knaves.

Honore De Balzac

#29. No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.

Thomas Otway

#30. History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

#31. By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#32. Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way.
We mortals are composed of two great schools
Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

Al-Ma'arri

#33. Fashion
a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Charles Churchill