Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
ALEXANDER POPE Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part...
VOLTAIRE There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Shocked? I consider Bob...
WALT WHITMAN When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
SHERMAN ALEXIE There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and re...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respec...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowi...
WILLIAM BOYD You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an aut...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM R...
CHARLES S. THOMAS Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making f...
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything
AFRICAN PROVERB How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) It's impossible to author a quote without an author.
ANONYMOUS One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputatio...
OSCAR WILDE Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again...
JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VOLTAIRE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE I'm a commercial writer, not an "author." Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a cens...
OCTAVIO PAZ While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an amb...
KAREN HESSE God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock ...
VOLTAIRE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
THOMAS GRAY It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an ...
ERALDO BANOVAC Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Fools rush in where fools have been before.
UNKNOWN Wise people understand the need to consult experts; only fools are confident they know everything.
KEN POIROT I really admire David Guetta; he's an unbelievable DJ and I love his style, his music and everyt...
PAULY D We're all kind of God's fools. The process is going to make fools out of all of us, I think: fools i...
JOHN CUSACK If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be
a considerable loser. Did I publi...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life.
ANUJ SOMANY As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant...
VINCENT BUGLIOSI Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the...
ISMAIL KADARE Of England's patrician class, the author writes: "It was easy to be agreeable when everything was do...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes
ROBERT JORDAN There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADE Music written by teams makes the authorship of a piece indistinct. Could it be that when hearing a s...
DAVID BYRNE One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
OSCAR WILDE One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
OSCAR WILDE I tell you the world is full of fools and only fools call each other fools.
VIKRANT PARSAI If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his
merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) An author departs, he does not die
DINAH MARIA MULOCK I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrol...
VOLTAIRE You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.
VOLTAIRE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose wor...
FRANK WYNNE Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER Anger rest in the bosom of fools.
BIBLE Resentment lies in the heart of fools.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Everything in moderation.
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anythin...
PATSY CLINE Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of mysel...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of m...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Choose an author as you choose a friend.
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN Choose an author as you choose a friend.
ARTHUR HELPS I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
RAY KURZWEIL IBM is pleased to have Voltaire as an open specification partner and Blade.Org member. It allows us ...
JUHI JOTWANI In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admi...
CATHARINE MACKINNON Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an e...
HENRY JAMES [The Muslim American Society] has an excellent reputation here.
DAN PARKER It was April Fools' Day. We were sending out an SOS to let people know we were in trouble. They must...
JEANO CAMPANARO Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things b...
SORIN SUCIU Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
NIGEL HAMILTON It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
OSCAR WILDE Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author i...
COLETTE The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarc...
A.E. SAMAAN Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
JOHN DRYDEN In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons
PROVERB Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.
BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, sco...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Ye've a furtive look in your eye - a furtive, sneakin', poachin' look in your eye, that 'ud ruin the...
RUDYARD KIPLING Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my...
ROALD DAHL And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
JOHN GREEN but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
JOHN GREEN El pasado es una historia lógica. Es el sentido de lo que sucedió. Pero como el futuro todavía no...
JOHN GREEN Kau bisa melihat masa depan kalau kau punya pemahaman dasar tentang bagaimana orang akan bersikap
JOHN GREEN Masa depan terbentang di hadapannya, tak terhindarkan namun tak kasat mata
JOHN GREEN And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absenc...
JOHN GREEN Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But ...
JOHN GREEN Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could sta...
JOHN GREEN En inglés, Borogove’” I said. “But what if I don’t finish this painting in
time?” TERRY BISSON Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS What an author doesn't know could fill a book.
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