Lou Reed Quotes

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.

There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

God gave me everything I have.

Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.

Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

The mind of a drunken fool is a useless tool.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

Providence seems to look after the chumps of this world; and, personally, I'm all for it.

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

He can afford to be a fool.

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.

Someone up there likes me.

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.