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Fool Quotes - Page 21

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

Amy Vanderbilt, Letitia Baldrige (1978). “The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living”, Doubleday Books

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.233, Hachette UK

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.492

There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.

William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.225, Faber & Faber

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

Letter to Horace Walpole, 25 February 1768, in H. W. Starr (ed.) 'Correspondence of Thomas Gray' (1971) vol. 3, letter 471

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

"Selectons from Steele's Contributions to the Tatler".

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com