“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
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?”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
“I’ve made myself a rich man. You shouldn’t assume that makes me a fool.”
Stephen Baxter book Vacuum Diagrams
The Quagma Datum (p. 201)
Short fiction, Vacuum Diagrams (1997)
“Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
Donna Tartt book The Secret History
Source: The Secret History
Bill Trader (1922–2003) American singer-songwriter
(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I (1952)
“Only when he has suffered does the fool learn.”
Hesiod book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 218.
“Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.”
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)