“Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.”

— Dinah Craik

Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 9

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English novelist and poet 1826–1887

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Surrender

“Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

De lo que tomo, tomo de más o de menos, no tomo lo justo. Lo justo no me sirve.
Voces (1943)

“Roger: I think that we still do what the song is asking for; you can't really control what kind of songs come out while writing,, so if the songs needs horns, we'll do some horns, if not, then that's ok too. We really don't think too much about what our fans want us to write, we just try to stay true to what is best for the song.”

Roger Manganelli (1973) American musician

“What Strider thinks of himself "He was too intense, too jaded, too warped and too… everything for most women to take for long. But so what. He was made of awesome. Anyone who couldn't see that wasn't smart enough to be with him, anyway.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Secret

“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

“Nothing can astonish me more than that any one should accuse me of all people of loving foreign fashions, whom I owne rather incline too much to the John Bull, and am apt to despise what I am not accustom'd to.”

George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820) King of Great Britain and King of Ireland

Source: Letter to the Earl of Bute (c. 1761–1762), quoted in Letters from George III to Lord Bute, 1756–1766, ed. Romney Sedgwick (1939), p. 77

“Fools will be fools,
And wise will be wise.
But I will look this world
Straight in the eyes.What good is a man
Who won't take a stand?
What good is a cynic
With no better plan?”

Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician

Better Way.
Song lyrics, Both Sides of the Gun (2006)

“To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Comment on the Union of Orthodox Rabbis after expelling a rabbi because of his disbelief in God as a personal entity.
Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein's God (1997)

“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool. ]”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.”

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