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Fascist Follies
“The fool has said in his heart; there is no God.”
--Psalm 14:1
It is folly to
trust herd immunity to
defeat Covid-19.
--Glenn Buttkus
Sometimes one likes a
fool for their folly, rather
than those with wisdom.
--Elizabeth Gaskell
Trump is the mad king
who surrounds himself with a
thousand fools for comfort.
--Glenn Buttkus
The author who writes for
fools only, will assure himself
of a large audience.
--Arthur Schopenhauer
Worse than mere fools, these
Trumpers are morons and idiots,
and they’re proud of it.
--Glenn Buttkus
There is no fire like
passion, no shark like hatred, and
no snare like folly.
--Siddharta Gautama
I was a fool for
love at fifteen, ten times in
my sophomore year.
--Glenn Buttkus
A heathen is a
person who has the folly
to believe in facts.
--Ambrose Bierce
Yes, it’s folly to
just count on polls to be your
voting guideposts.
--Glenn Buttkus
If you shield men from
the effects of folly, you
fill the world with fools.
--Herbert Spencer
When the President
is a damn fool, how to you
expect him to act?
--Glenn Buttkus
Experience keeps
a dear school, but fools will learn
scarcely no other.
--Benjamin Franklin
There was a time when
I was foolish enough to want
success in the Arts.
--Glenn Buttkus
The highest form of
bliss is living with a certain
degree of folly.
--Erasmus
Folly is as folly
does, pants down, eyes shut, letting
it all hang out.
--Glenn Buttkus
I will tear this folly
from my heart, though every fiber
bleeds as I rent it.
--Walter Scott
The choice to be a
fool is yours; it is folly to
believe in intangibles.
--Vera Nazarian
Glenn Buttkus
Renga: collaborative haiku
Posted over at d'Verse Poet's Pub
9 comments:
This is killer brother! I love what you pulled from the wisdom of ages. I also love the fact that every other punch is in pumpkinheads gut. Well written and I enjoyed reading it, thanks Glenn!
Glenn, I love your renga collaboration. The bell tolling folly's truths. That first one, about "herd immunity" has me wondering what idiot started promoting the catch phrase. Let me guess... You've captured the facets of folly with a diamond-cutter's precision. Bravo!
Whoooossssh!💝 This is absolutely fantastic and reads like an ongoing conversation. It feels like both emotion and wisdom is being passed on. Love this!
You really went to town with this prompt and you pulled it off with aplomb! Unfortunately we are living in an era of global folly...
You’ve done it again, Glenn! What a collaboration, from so many voices, and so well mixed. It does indeed feel like a dialogue, with you at its heart. We are all fools at some time or other, but knowing that, we can’t trust an old idiot to run one of the most powerful countries in the world. American politics needs young(er) blood, real politicians who understand the world.
You are a master of this form Glenn. The cumulative effect of each quote explodes in truth.
Bring it on... so much fun, but I fear that the president is no fool... he is really evil.
"The foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men and the weakness of God is stronger than men." (1 Corinthians 1:25)
Just to add another quote to your list.
Thank yoou for sharing this
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