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“The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun”
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“The folly of one man is the fortune of another.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Of Fortune
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“Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he
that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 28)
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“It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
will be meddling.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XX, v. 3)
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“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like
unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own
conceit.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVI, v. 4-5)
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“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVII, v. 22)
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“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are
corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that
doeth good.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. XIV, v. 1)
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“A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
[Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes Source: L'art Poetique (I, 232)
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“Fool me no fools.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Last Days of Pompeii (bk. III, ch. 6)
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“To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 923)
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“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 6)
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“Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan (l. 68)
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“Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than
discretion.
[Sp., Mas acompanados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la
discrecion.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (II, 13)
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“More knave than fool.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. IV, ch. 2)
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“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: All Fools (act V, sc. 1, l. 292)
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“The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]”
Pierre Charron Quotes Source: Las Sagesse (bk. I, ch. 3)
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“Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: Apology (l. 42)
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“All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Epistles (IX, 22)
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“To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial
disgrace.
[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa
proverbio est.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Epistles (X, 20)
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“A fool must now and then be right by chance.”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Epistles (X, 20)
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“The solemn fog; significant and budge;
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Conversation (l. 299)
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“Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, l. 187)
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“Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
[Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, l. 187)
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“A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their
birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race
of their lives.”
Thomas Fuller Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Natural Fools (maxim IV)
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“A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of
skepticism may . . . readily degenerate into the rival folly of
credulity.”
Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone Quotes Source: Time and Place of Homer (introductory)
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