
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
Source: My Name is Red
Source: The Time Keeper
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
Source: My Name is Red
“I’ve made myself a rich man. You shouldn’t assume that makes me a fool.”
The Quagma Datum (p. 201)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)
“Only when he has suffered does the fool learn.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 218.
“Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.”
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)