Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Good is not good when better is expected.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

My expectations are incredibly high.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

At the end of the day, everything you chase will run.

only a fool would argue with a fool!

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.