fools [Theme]
A person, when he is a fool, is very vile...
Here we have pear trees in bloom and apple trees unfolding. The weather was lovely, warm and even the rain, which was so desirable, passed on the third day. The forest is opposite, across the river; greenery - like in popular prints. All around, winter trees are beginning to take on a silvery tint. In the forest, nightingales sing, other birds echo them... Various ordinary people pester me so much with requests, with bills, peddlers with goods, that every minute I am ready to loudly tell them: Let's go
Quote Explanation: Ilya Repin, from a letter to Vladimir Stasov, 1893.
To please everyone is to make a fool of yourself.
A smart person learns from mistakes, but a fool only puts up with it
Quote Explanation: Analogue: A smart person learns from the mistakes of fools, and they repeat them all the time.
Whatever a genius does, fools will redo it.
Fools pursue a goal even if it is impossible to achieve.
Fools don't get sick.
Wise people speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Fools sweat from fun.
Fools who don’t know the Russians, I seriously think they can be defeated. But is it really possible to defeat a people who are ready to accept any pain when they know for sure that it will be worse for others?
Colonel Friedrich Kraus von Zillergut (Zillergut is the name of a village in Salzburg, which the colonel's ancestors drank away in the eighteenth century) was a rare blockhead.
I have met a lot of both evil and stupid people, and I am sure that in the end both of them pay for their actions, but only fools much earlier.
The wise only gives advice, but does not help the fool to become smart, because he knows for sure that fools are never grateful.
He was always like that - either a fool or a hero. And you can't say which is more dangerous.
