“I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.”
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
Kurt Vonnegut book Jailbird
Source: Jailbird (1979), p. 14
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Implosion Magazine, No. 51, p. 29 (Callum Coats: Water Wizard)
Implosion Magazine
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Journal for Saturday, 27th November 1813; Quoted in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore (1830), Vol III, Chap. XVII, p. 208 http://books.google.com/books?id=nloLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA208
“I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman’s moments.”
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
“What kind of fool am I?
I never fell in love.”
Lesley Bricusse (1931) English composer, lyricist and playwright
Song What kind of fool am I?
“I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.”
Harry Secombe (1921–2001) British entertainer
“I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
recollection http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F2113&viewtype=text&pageseq=7 by E. Ray Lankester, from his essay "Charles Robert Darwin" in C.D. Warner, editor, Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern (R.S. Peale & J.A. Hill, New York, 1896) volume 2, pages 4835-4393, at page 4391 <br class="br">Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
Dean Koontz (1945) American author