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Fool Quotes - Page 11

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

Only the fools are certain and assured.

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.111, Stanford University Press

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.153, Indiana University Press

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Triple Fool'

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

"Timeless wisdom of Mr. Dooley" by Mark Shields, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2004.