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Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so. - Dr. Samuel L. Metcalf, quoted by William Camden as a saying of Dr. Metcalf's Women are charged with a fondness for nonsense and frivolity. Did not Talleyrand say, "I find nonsense singularly refreshing"? - Louis Charles Alfred de Musset How much folly there is in human affairs. [Lat., Quantum est in rebus inane!] - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), Satires (I, 1) An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. - Plutarch, Morals--On the Training of Children So by false learning is food sense defac'd; Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (pt. I, l. 25) We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 438) For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 66) The fool is happy that he knows no more. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 264) Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. II, l. 15) Die and endow a college or a cat. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. III, To Bathurst, l. 96) No creature smarts so little as a fool. - Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires (l. 84) Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. - Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace (ep. II, l. 326) The rest on outside merit but presume, Or serve (like other fools) to fill a room. - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (bk. I, l. 136) Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. [Lat., Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt, stulti eruditis videntur.] - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) X, 7, 22 After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul), Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (bk. II, ch. V) He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. [Lat., Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum spectat, altitudinem non metitur.] - Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus), De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 8) Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought. [Lat., Insipientis est dicere, Non putarum.] - Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! - Sir Walter Scott, The Bridal of Triermain (canto I, st. 21) Among other evils folly has also this, that it is always beginning to live. [Lat., Inter caetera mala hoc quoque habet Stultitia semper incipit vivere.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (13) Sir, for a cardecue he will sell the fee simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it, and cut th' entail from all remainders, and a perpetual succession for it perpetually. - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (Parolles at IV, iii) A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii) O noble fool, A worth fool! Motley's the only wear. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii) I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad: and to travel for it too. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Rosalind at IV, i) The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Touchstone at V, i) Displaying page 3 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5
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