{"quotes":[{"text":"I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.","author":"Genna Rulon","tags":["alcohol","bar","drinking","fool","fools","hard-times","intelligence","smart"],"id":270,"author_id":"Genna+Rulon"},{"text":"What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?","author":"Ogwo David Emenike","tags":["fool","humor","inspirational","sage"],"id":1159,"author_id":"Ogwo+David+Emenike"},{"text":"It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.  Dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["capacity","enjoyment","fool","happiness","imperfections","philosophy","satisfaction","socrates"],"id":2294,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"When you live by understanding, you will not be fooled any longer.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["fool","living-by-understanding","understanding","understanding"],"id":2710,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Please don't fool yourself cause you can't fool me. I know what exactly you think right now and I also know what excuses you will bring to cover your nasty lies, but never forget that I will never ever believe you.","author":"Arash Tabish","tags":["excuses","fool","lies"],"id":3337,"author_id":"Arash+Tabish"},{"text":"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.","author":"Sholom Aleichem","tags":["wise","fool","tragedy "],"id":3445,"author_id":"Sholom+Aleichem"},{"text":"I'm beginning to wonder,' said Kent, sitting down now on an overturned wooden tub. 'Who do I serve? Why am I here?'You are here, because, in the expanding ethical ambiguity of our situation, you are steadfast in your righteousness. It is to you, our banished friend, that we all turn—a light amid the dark dealings of family and politics. You are the moral backbone on which the rest of us hang our bloody bits. Without you we are merely wiggly masses of desire writhing in our own devious bile.'Really?' asked the old knight.Aye,' said I.I'm not sure I want to keep company with you lot, then.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["ethics","fool","kent","morality"],"id":5157,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.","author":"Philip Stanhope","tags":["wisdom","wise","fool "],"id":5354,"author_id":"Philip+Stanhope"},{"text":"Only fools listen to their hearts. Only fools get attached. We wanderers get in and get out just in time.","author":"Shruti Upadhaya","tags":["fool","fools","hate","heart","in","love","out","play","time","wanderers"],"id":6004,"author_id":"Shruti+Upadhaya"},{"text":"Only a fool will accept a gift you cannot keep. You can't keep anything from the world but salvation is wise and everlasting. John 3:16.","author":"Felix Wantang","tags":["bible","everlasting","fool","gift","god","holy-spirit","jesus-christ","salvation","wise","world"],"id":6025,"author_id":"Felix+Wantang"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":365,"pages":37,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}