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Whether you're the perp or prey of April Fools' shenanigans, feel free to slot one of these short quotes and sayings into an Instagram post or text. In exchange for their use, we'll only charge ...
Famous people, famous quotes. Many of the most memorable quotations are attributed to famous people (whether they actually said them or not!). In honor of Reader’s Digest’s 100th anniversary ...
Suffer fools gladly is a phrase in contemporary use, first coined by Saint Paul in his second letter to the Church at Corinth . The full verse of the original source of the idiom, 2 Corinthians 11:19 ( KJV ), reads "For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise."
Walk down Reader's Digest memory lane with these quotes from famous people throughout the decades. The post 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People appeared first on Reader's Digest.
In a slightly different form, the phrase shows up in the January 1806 European Magazine: "That there vash von fool born every minute.'" [8] According to David W. Maurer, writing in The Big Con (1940), [9] there was a similar saying amongst con men: "There's a mark born every minute, and one to trim 'em and one to knock 'em." Here 'trim' means ...
They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half. They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! – they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.
"The economy, stupid" is a phrase that was coined by James Carville in 1992. It is often quoted from a televised quip by Carville as "It’s the economy, stupid." Carville was a strategist in Bill Clinton's successful 1992 U.S. presidential election against incumbent George H. W. Bush.
April Fools' Day is here, and you might have forgotten about it after a busy Easter weekend! This year, the holiday for pranksters falls on Monday, April 1, so you'll want to make sure you have ...