Delight Quote by Ferdinand Mount

“A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any…

— George Eliot

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times”

— Munia Khan

“A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“All this is only fooling, for if it is true that every man must work for his own salvation, then all the prophecies about…

— Søren Kierkegaard

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death…

— Lord Byron

“A fool is always too full to feed on the words of the wise.”

— Paul Bamikole PB

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood…

— William Shakespeare

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“constantly keeping in mind the truth that external things being beyond our power and subject to fortune are unimportant, to laugh rather than weep…

— Francis Caldwell Holland

“A remarkable thing happens in the experience of my fools: from them not only true things, but even sharp reproaches, will be listened to;…

— Erasmus

“The Holy Fool is always considered a dummy by the smart, hip people who really know the score. There’s a mysterious blight on the…

— Ann Medlock