Fool Quotes III

FOOL QUOTES III

quotations about fools

There is one way for a fool to appear wise, that is, to be silent.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes

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Some are contented to wear the mask of foolishness in order to carry on their vicious schemes.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

FRANCIS BACON

De Augmentis Scientiarum

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Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

EDWARD YOUNG

Love of Fame: The Universal Passion in Seven Characteristical Satires

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Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools -- guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus -- THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

RICHARD FEYNMAN

Surely You're Joking

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A man who tells you he's no fool has his suspicions.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit;
And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

MARK TWAIN

letter to W. D. Howells, 1877

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The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

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Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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

JOHN GAY

Fables

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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

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

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