Top 25 Fool Quotes of 1413 - Page 30

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

Work, Suffering, Fool

A fool and his money be soon at debate

Fool, Debate

Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.23, Lackington, Allen

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Thomas Overbury

Shadow, Fool, Flattery

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

Terry Goodkind

Fool, Walks, Backwards

Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.17, Head of Zeus

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

Tacitus

Children, Liberty, Fool

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

Tacitus

Adventure, Hazards, Fool

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

Stephen Fry

Cutting, Glasses, Fool

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Stephen Fry

Two, Fool, Compromise

Stephen Fry (2012). “Columbus war ein Engländer: Geschichte einer Jugend”, p.229, Aufbau Digital

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Stephen Fry

Failing, Foolish

Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.54, The Overlook Press

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Stendhal

Would Be, Matter, Fool

Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.20, Booklassic

No fool can be silent at a feast.

Solon

Fool, Silent

"The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments, Vol. 5". Book translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Little, Brown, p. 417, 1865.

If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.

Sharon Osbourne

Mirrors, Want, Fool

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

Sebastian Faulks

Would Be, Hints, Fool

"Dr John Briffa assesses Sebastian Faulks' shopping basket" by John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Samuel Johnson

Wife, Foolish, Chastity

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.378

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

Sakyong Mipham

Wise, Foolish, Extremes

Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.82, Harmony

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

S. J. Perelman

Cities, Wife, Fool

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.

Robert Pollok

Freedom, Soul, Fool

Robert Pollok (1833). “The Course of Time, a Poem: With a Memoir of the Author, an Introductory Notice, a Copious Index, and an Analysis Prefixed to Each Book”, p.74