“Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.”
Source: Only the Good Spy Young
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“There is no liar like the one who lies to himself. He has a fool indeed for an audience.”
Jane Yolen (1939) American speculative fiction and children's writer
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Bull & the Crowth (p. 122)
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) American song lyricist
"Atheist".
Rhymes for the Irreverent (1965)
“It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.”
Elmore Leonard book Freaky Deaky
Source: Freaky Deaky
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
As quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist
Sometimes attributed to Ackerman this actually originates with Nicolas Chamfort, as quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
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Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
The Obvious Child
Song lyrics, The Rhythm of the Saints (1990)
“Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Midnight Palace
Source: The Midnight Palace