This case suggests the state takes us for fools.
For me, being an actor was synonymous with wandering round with a gin and tonic and plotting how to murder your wife by cutting the brakes on her car, having offered to fix them ("You fools, anyone could have told you I wasn't a qualified mechanic").
Brash, opinionated and impatient, Kasparov did not come into this world to suffer fools, delay or defeat.
When he was banned for a month, Cantona told every member of the disciplinary committee that they were fools.
But 120 years ago, John Ruskin - who thought Monsal Dale "divine as the Vale of Tempe" - denounced the viaduct as the vandalism of fools who wanted to travel between Bakewell and Buxton in half an hour.
When I worked in Hollywood with fools such as Kubrick, I found it best just to take what was on offer while retaining un détachement supercilieux.
Lobbying agencies create phoney blogs for clients and press releases that no journalist will read – all positive content that fools search engines into pushing the dummy content above the negative, driving the output of critics down Google rankings.
"A soap opera placed in the setting of a glamorous office where stylish fools hump their appreciative, coiffured secretaries, suck up martinis and smoke themselves to death as they produce dumb lifeless advertising …" He's right – and wrong to be angry.
Increasingly building his role as a man who could influence all aspects of the game, the Swede, his spectacles ablaze with the shining fools' gold on offer, allowed himself to be ruthlessly set up and suckered by the dodgy Dubaians from the undergrowth of Wapping.
I am my own Dieu, I fashion my vanity, delighting in the vicarious transgression that has fashionable artists like those fools Cocteau and Picasso, who have never dared to have oral sex with a leprotic geriatric vagabond.
One thing that could be held against her is that she is mean and habitually mistakes unkindness for strength, and displays a bullish lack of restraint for an inability to suffer fools.
