Quotes of Gull - somelinesforyou

“ No one but a fool is always right. ”

- David Hare

“ Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. ”

- Edward Young

“ If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. ”

- Paul Newman

“ But God, whatever else He is, and of course He is everything else, is not a fool. ”

- Alan Bennett

“ Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. ”

- Cato the Elder

“ If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York. ”

- O. Henry

“ I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. ”

- William F. Claire

“ The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ None is a fool always, everyone sometimes. ”

- George Herbert

“ The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. ”

- Doug Larson

“ Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. ”

- Cato the Elder

“ Say Farallon and I hear an instant music, a kind of animal ocean-noise, built mainly of gull cries and sea lion barkings. Every gull is saying Mine! Mine! Mine!, but the lions sometimes seem to be sounding off for the sheer pleasure of it. ”

- John Hart

“ It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them. ”

- Paddy Ashdown

“ In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims. ”

- Howard Zinn
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