John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter
Caravan of Fools (co-written with Dan Auerbach and Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
Caravan of Fools (co-written with Dan Auerbach and Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter
Caravan of Fools (co-written with Dan Auerbach and Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
“The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on.”
Paul Keating (1944) Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
Referring to his economic record, 7.30 Report, August 6, 2008. 7.30 Report Interview http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2326431.htm
“Our caravan leader is the pride of the world, Mustafa [Muhammad]”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
As quoted in And Muhammad is his Messenger : The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety (1985) by Annemarie Schimmel, p. 215
“Time, you old gipsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?”
Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) British writer
"Time, You Old Gipsy Man", p. 4.
Poems (1917)
“Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Eve to Cain, in Pt. I, Act II
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
February 3, 1860
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: http://thoreau.library.ucsb.edu/writings_journals_pdfs/J15f4-f6.pdf#page=289
Source: Journal #14
“You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.”
Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist
“I love you because
You're a sweet little fool!”
John Henry Boner (1845–1903) American writer
The sweet little Fool (The Sequel), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).