FOOL QUOTES IV

quotations about fools


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Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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Moral Maxims


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Fools may our scorn, not envy raise,
For envy is a kind of praise.

JOHN GAY

Fables


Fashion! -- a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

The Rosciad


There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.

WILLIAM GOLDING

Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 1983


The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Bobok


The angels must tremble when a fool is in the right.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


The man who is foolish at the termination of his life shall always remain a fool.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya


Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

EDWARD YOUNG

Night Thoughts


He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.

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


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


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


The learned Fool writes his Nonsense in better Language than the unlearned; but still 'tis Nonsense.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754


Children and fools speak true.

JOHN LYLY

Endymion


Fools always lead a mob.

PAUL H. YARBROUGH

"A Congress of Fools", Communities Digital News, May 6, 2019


When dunces call us fools, without proving us to be so, our best retort is to prove them to be fools, without condescending to call them so.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

W.C. FIELDS


O! I am Fortune's fool.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet


Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

AESOP

Aesop's Fables