Cesare Pavese Quotes

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Cesare Pavese

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• Misfortunes
• Intelligent Man

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• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Hair
  • Fool
  • Disney

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Music
  • Lost

• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • May
  • Wife
  • Moment

• He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Fool
  • Others
  • Himself

• There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Yourself
  • Fool
  • Walk

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Wise
  • Fool

• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• Let the world call me a fool,But if things are right with me and you,That's all that matters.And I'll do anything you asked me to.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Fool

• And love and, love I'll be a fool For you, I'm sure. You know I don't mind...

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Mind
  • Fool

• Now if there's a smile on my face,It's only there tryin' to fool the public,But when it comes down to foolin' you;Now honey, that's quite a different subject.But don't let my glad expressionGive you the wrong impression.Really I'm sad.I'm sadder than sad.You're gone and I'm hurtin' so bad.Like a clown I pretend to be glad.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Sad

• Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Waiting

• I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know thenI wish I could start this whole thing over againI'm not sayin' it's you could never be trueI just don't wanna know how it endsYou'd still have my heart in the palm of your handsI'd still look like a fool in front of your friendsYeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Heart
  • Wish
  • Fool

• He died and He went down to hell! You know not what you mean. Our rafters were of green fir. Also our beds were green. But out of the mouth of a fool, a fool, before the darkness fall, We tell you He is risen again, The Lord of Life is risen again, The boughs put forth their tender buds, and Love is Lord of all!

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Green

• I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Trying
  • Small
  • Fool

• 'Griot' is a French word which means, you know, really, literally, 'cry.' You know, like the town crier. You know, they come in and say, you know, 'It's nine o'clock; everything is cool.' You know, 'President Bush is a fool.' I mean, stuff like that just to tell you. But for the kind of, the African thing is called djali.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Cool
  • Fool

• The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

  

  Epicurus
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

  

  Charles Simmons
  • Fool

• You don't get to be old bein' no fool.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Fool

• Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.

  

  Catherine Crook de Camp
  • Dream
  • President
  • Fool

• When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is.

  

  James Comey
  • Life
  • Door

• Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Fool
  • Misfortunes
  • Intelligent Man