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There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. - Joseph Addison The folly of one man is the fortune of another. - Francis Bacon, Of Fortune Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. - Hosea Ballou Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 28) It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XX, v. 3) 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, Proverbs (ch. XXVI, v. 4-5) Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXVII, v. 22) 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, Psalms (ch. XIV, v. 1) If others had not been foolish, we should be so. - William Blake 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, L'art Poetique (I, 232) Fool me no fools. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Last Days of Pompeii (bk. III, ch. 6) To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 923) Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 6) Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R.B. Sheridan (l. 68) 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), Don Quixote (II, 13) More knave than fool. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. IV, ch. 2) Women, like men, may be persuaded to confess their faults; but their follies, never.-Alfred de Musset. There are well-dressed follies, as there are well-clothed fools. - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. - George Chapman, All Fools (act V, sc. 1, l. 292) The shortest follies are the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.] - Pierre Charron, Las Sagesse (bk. I, ch. 3) Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. - Charles Churchill, Apology (l. 42) No one should so act as to take advantage of another's folly. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Epistles (IX, 22) 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) (often called "Tully" for short), Epistles (X, 20) In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge A fool must now and then be right by chance. - William Cowper Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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