Quotes of Tomfoolery - somelinesforyou

“ JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. ”

- Pierre Gallois

“ Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have… the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality… which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. ”

- Pierre Gallois

“ Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have… the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality… which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory. ”

- Luigi Pirandello
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