2006-09-20 19:24:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It is just like a pigeon closing his eyes on seeing a cat. The pigeon thinks when he is not looking at the cat, the cat would not be looking at it also.
2006-09-20 19:28:50 · answer #1 · answered by trimuph 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fool's Paradise" is an excellent introduction to the work of an amazing writer and astonishingly versatile public intellectual, now largely forgotten. Before editing "The Nation" for two decades, McWilliams wrote a dozen first-rate books and hundreds of penetrating articles on the exploitation of farm labor, racial and ethnic prejudice, the Japanese-American internment, California politics and culture, and the Red scare.
2006-09-21 02:42:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This quotation is used when someone is so much engrossed in his personal fanciful thoughts that he is quite unaware of the realities of the outside world.
Example:- If you hope that the policemen are honest then you are living in a fool's paradise.
2006-09-21 02:33:00 · answer #3 · answered by sameer s 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's part of a proverb: "A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."
This was originally a quotation by Thomas Fuller, a seventeenth-century British cleric. I think its meaning is fairly self-evident...
2006-09-23 11:36:38 · answer #4 · answered by quasinomer 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A fool who uses drugs ... When he is "on trip"
all looks fine and easy. When he is back to
earth, he needs more drugs. So he is pumping
again. So long as if he is "high" he is living
in a kind of paradise. A "Fool's Paradise"...
Better never awake !!!!
2006-09-21 07:46:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
a fool's paradise is akin to the Emperors new clothes or ignorance is bliss ..... imagine some idiot living oblivious to all the atrocities , garbage , and filth of the city as blind and happy as could be the fool thinks he is in paradise .... Also used to focus on the specious denial in a one sided debate.
2006-09-21 02:31:47 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A good example is the "promise of 75 virgins waiting in heaven" that is used to encourage the Muslim idiots to blow themselves up.
A fool's paradise is a dream, a place that does not exist but is used to entice someone to do what they would not ordinarily do.
A flim-flam promise, bait, ****** prize,"dangling from a cloud", a bottle with a message in the ocean. the genie and his three wishes. etc.,etc.,
2006-09-24 23:32:22 · answer #7 · answered by Mr.Been there 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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A state of delusive contentment or false hope
Fool's paradise, a name applied to a limbo popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction.
2006-09-21 02:51:25 · answer #8 · answered by mallimalar_2000 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
HI
assuming yourself to be in the imaginary world........."fools paradise" ....always reffered on the comic side..........
bye
2006-09-21 10:41:36 · answer #9 · answered by vasantha l 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A state of happiness based on false hope.
2006-09-21 02:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Sweety Tweety 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋