Cesare Pavese Quotes

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

Cesare Pavese

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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

• 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

• I don't really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there's scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Different
  • Fool
  • Beach

• The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Opinion
  • Fool

• Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

  

  John Dryden
  • Fool

• There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

  

  Diogenes
  • Wise
  • Fool

• The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Solitude

• If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Way
  • Deserve
  • Criminals

• My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Goal
  • Model
  • Development

• Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

  

  David Hume
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

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

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Fool
  • Misfortunes
  • Intelligent Man