
"Letter Written During a January Northeaster"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
Homer's Odysses (1614), Book IX, line 496
"Letter Written During a January Northeaster"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
“Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Disputed
“Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.”
Stanza 124
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
“What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 24
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections