Quotes by Updike, John

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. >>

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true en >>

I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging >>

Quotations about Fools and Foolishness

In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool. >>

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woma >>

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise p >>

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.

Updike, John