Fool Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Download Open image “Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.” — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fool Fools and wise Inspirational Love Satisfied
The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever then the men who laugh at them. — George RR Martin Copy Share Image
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The real fools are the ones who are too practical for their own happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back.… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none… — William Booth Copy Share
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A mistake doesnt make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image