quotations about fools
Fools may our scorn, not envy raise,
For envy is a kind of praise.
JOHN GAY
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Fables
Old fools are greater fools than young ones.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
Fashion! -- a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.
CHARLES CHURCHILL
The Rosciad
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Bobok
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
WILLIAM GOLDING
Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 1983
He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
EDWARD YOUNG
Night Thoughts
The learned Fool writes his Nonsense in better Language than the unlearned; but still 'tis Nonsense.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
The man who is foolish at the termination of his life shall always remain a fool.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
The angels must tremble when a fool is in the right.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
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
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
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
AESOP
Aesop's Fables
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
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
Fools always lead a mob.
PAUL H. YARBROUGH
"A Congress of Fools", Communities Digital News, May 6, 2019
Children and fools speak true.
JOHN LYLY
Endymion
Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"The Voyage to Vinland"
When a fool dies there is much shedding of tears in the land whither he is bound.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims