Brigham Young Quotes

You take insult where none is intended, but if you will find insult where none is meant, then perhaps I should try harder to insult on purpose.

He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

My cousin's a fool, and thou art another.

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

My sense of humor doesn't translate well into print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even though I don't mean them that way. So I have been told to try and censor myself here and there. I'm trying, but I'm not really succeeding at it.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.

So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously

God cannot save them from fools.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.

How wise are they that are but fools in love!

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.