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If men are to be fools, it were better that they were fools in little matters than in great; dullness, turned up with temerity, is a livery all the worse for the facings; and the most tremendous of all things is a magnanimous dunce. - Sydney Smith The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool. - Sydney Smith You pity a man who is lame or blind, but you never pity him for being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune. - Sydney Smith No fool can be silent at a feast. - Solon The imputation of being a fool is a thing which mankind, of all others, is the most impatient of, it being a blot upon the prime and specific perfection of human nature. - Bishop Robert South Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. - Jonathan Swift Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent. - The Talmud A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. - William Makepeace Thackeray If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man. - William Makepeace Thackeray Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells? - William Makepeace Thackeray He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever. - John Tillotson Those who realize their folly are not true fools. - Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. - Alfred North Whitehead Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. - Thornton Niven Wilder A fool at forty is a fool indeed. - Edward Young Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, A fool in fashion, but a fool that's out; His passion for absurdity's so strong, He cannot bear a rival in the wrong. - Edward Young Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 4 of 4 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 [4]
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