Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

It is delightful to play the fool.

— Horace

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I wasn't sporty or academic, so to avoid getting picked on I'd play the fool.

— Lee Evans

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

— Menander

“According to Q-Jo, the whole tarot deck, or at least the twenty-two trump cards of the Major Arcana, may be read as the Fool's…

— Tom Robbins

I love the crazy things you do. Plus tonight's the night for me to play the fool.

— Travis McCoy

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

— John Locke

“To initiate something is to play the fool.”

— Chris Kraus

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

— William Shakespeare

“If wisdom's silence then it's time to play the fool.”

— Chris Kraus

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

— William Shakespeare

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

— Walter Savage Landor

I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.

— Charles Macaulay

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

— John Dryden

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

— William Cowper