quotations about fools
There may be no fool like an old fool, but our observation has been that the young fool runs him a pretty close second.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
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Poems and Paragraphs
Old fools are greater fools than young ones.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
Fools may our scorn, not envy raise,
For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY
Fables
The angels must tremble when a fool is in the right.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Fools are very often found united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Essays on Men and Manners
Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
Fools are very often found united in the strictest intimacy, as the lighter kinds of wood can be the most closely glued together.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
Harper's magazine, Aug. 1990
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
WILLIAM GOLDING
Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 1983
The difference between a puppy and a fool is this--the one is born blind and continues so for nine days only, while the other remains with his eyes shut all his life.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
O! I am Fortune's fool.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
Fools always lead a mob.
PAUL H. YARBROUGH
"A Congress of Fools", Communities Digital News, May 6, 2019
The learned Fool writes his Nonsense in better Language than the unlearned; but still 'tis Nonsense.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
When a fool dies there is much shedding of tears in the land whither he is bound.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
We must often consider, not what the wise will think, but what the foolish will be sure to say.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"The Voyage to Vinland"
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. FIELDS
Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations