Obliviously Foolish People Quotes & Sayings

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance. — Charles Lamb

It wasn't my fault. — Janet Evanovich

Success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done. — Myles Munroe

One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world's people, those of the West included, are taught to believe rather than to think. It's much easier to believe than to think. People seldom think seriously about that which we are taught to believe, because we are all creatures of imitation and habit. — Haki R. Madhubuti

She had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess. — Rachel Simon

You came and you left and I'm just looking to quick dry cement it, press and bend it, fold it up and tuck it away for safe keeping. I know that it's reaching but I just want to leave your name on a page somewhere and never need to come back to it. — Trista Mateer

First of all," he said, with a sly smile, "we have to kill you! — Darren Shan

I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true. — Dorothy Parker

It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology. — Yuri Averbakh

A strong team consists of people who know how to follow a leader. — Sunday Adelaja

It's not ugly. It's a mark of courage. Of survival. I think you're beautiful. — Maya Banks