Fool Quotes

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A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. — William Hazlitt
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. — Jean de La Fontaine
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is… — Samuel Johnson
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of… — John Armstrong
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. — Thomas Tusser
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. — Robert Burns
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. — William Shenstone
Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at… — Lord Chesterfield
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. — James Harvey Robinson
None is a fool always, everyone sometimes. — George Herbert
So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call… — Alexander Pope
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women,… — Alexander Pope
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. — Alexander Pope
A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown. — John Milton
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. — Og Mandino
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. — Socrates
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. — Socrates
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. — Erica Jong

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