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A fool's bolt is soon shot. — William Shakespeare
What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,… — William Shakespeare
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an… — William Shakespeare
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce
INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. — Ambrose Bierce
Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah.… — Carl Sandburg
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything. — Aristotle
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool.… — William Blake
Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool. — William Blake
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool… — William Blake
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

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