They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.
An honest man is always a child.
You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.
Maybe Hillary Clinton was right in 2008 when she called Barack Obama 'naive' on foreign policy.
I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.
Youth is wasted on the young.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.
God looks after drunks, children and Americans.
Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.
… the idiocy of rural life
Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.
Goodness is something people take advantage of, and if you want to remain a good person for long, you should make sure that too many people don't take advantage of you because then you turn bitter.
The essence of the show is that SpongeBob is an innocent in a world of jaded characters. The rest is absurd packaging.
I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.
No one more cynical than an idealist.
You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
