Top 25 Quotes About The Simpleton
#1. A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.
Anonymous
#2. The cunning waste their pains;
The wise men vex their brains;
But the simpleton, who seeks no gains,
With belly full, he wanders free
As drifting boat upon the sea.
Cao Xueqin
#3. He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
William Wirt
#4. The real Ivan was rather more elusive, Mark gauged; it would not do to underestimate his subtlety, or mistake him for a simpleton.
Anonymous
#5. Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they'll be dead! Simpletons! Let's go! This ought to show 'em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#6. My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.
Chic Murray
#7. Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.
Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"
is a simpleton.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#9. Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#10. I didn't know whether to feel smart for figuring out Kiki's advice, or feel like a simpleton for having a horse tell me the right thing to do
Maria V. Snyder
#11. Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.
Andy Partridge
#12. A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.
Curt Goetz
#13. With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.
Rossiter Johnson
#14. One more minute of this, and she'd be a certifiable simpleton.
Tessa Dare
#15. Do not look so surprised, my dear," he said with a grin. "I might be a useless aristocrat, but I'm not a complete simpleton. I can certainly carry on a conversation about which word is the best English translation for what I wish to do to your mouth just now.
Manda Collins
#16. Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
Brandon Mull
#17. These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
Laozi
#18. The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel De Cervantes
#19. Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.
Franz Grillparzer
#20. It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#21. What is Intriguing to Wise, throws a Simpleton into Oblivion and an Eccentric into a BLACK HOLE!
True Krishna Priya
#22. I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.
James O. Fraser
#24. And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.
Tamora Pierce
#25. No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office.
Hans Christian Andersen
