“A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Darkfever
“A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
Norman Mailer book The Naked and the Dead
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 3
The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Context: You're a fool if you don't realize this is going to be the reactionary's century, perhaps their thousand-year reign. It's the one thing Hitler said which wasn't completely hysterical.
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVII: On Taking One’s Own Life
“A thousand fools believe a lie, and it’s good as truth.”
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 1, “Ashore” - Chapter 5 (p. 28)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Indian guru
No. 190, p. 168
Revelation (1951)
“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
“A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
“Only fools offend me, woman, and they but once.”
C. L. Moore (1911–1987) American author
Jirel Meets Magic (1935); p. 94
Short fiction, Jirel of Joiry (1969)
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!”
Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills
Three and—an Extra.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)