“There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.”
No Country for Old Men (2005)
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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933Related quotes

“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.”
Le plus fou souvent est le plus satisfait.
Satire 4, l. 128
Satires (1716)

Source: Utilitarianism (1861), Ch. 2
Context: It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.

She looked at Klein uncomprehendingly.
Source: The Sundered Worlds (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 206)