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Fool Quotes by Alexander Pope
- We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
- Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong…
- Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
- Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
- No creature smarts so little as a fool.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
- For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
- Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
- Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
- Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but…
- Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE,…
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