"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

Folly, Instinct, Action, Judgment, Reaction

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"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

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"Lord what fools these mortals be!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery."

Jonathan Mayhew, American Clergyman

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"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

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"Folly always knows the answer."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Folly, Instinct, Action, Judgment, Reaction

"A law can be both economic folly and constitutional."

Antonin Scalia, American Judge

Folly, Law

"The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

Folly, Rights, Queen

"If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them."

Samuel Hopkins, American Clergyman

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"Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized."

Choice, Expression, Man, Opinion

"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."

Virtue, Patience

"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."

People, Care, London

"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

Failure, Authority, Crime, Fool

"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."

Man,

"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

Politics, Alliance

"Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you."

Man,

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

Patriotism, Name

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul."

Quality, Soul, Curiosity, Desire