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Fool Quotes - Page 18

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

Christopher Marlowe (1981). “Doctor Faustus”, Signet Classics

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.13, Courier Corporation

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.10, Faber & Faber

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”, p.87

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

Robert Burns, Mr. Thomson (George) (1809). “Poems formerly published, with some additions,and a history of these poems, by Gilbert Burns”, p.113

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1316, Delphi Classics

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8840, Delphi Classics

You cannot fool an audience.

Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, University of Illinois Press

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.239

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

"Satires". Book by Juvenal, XIII, line 180, 1890.