Fool Quotes - Page 38

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

Children and fools speak true.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

Sunny didn't make a fool out of Phineas, God beat her to that.

I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

Whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one.

Any fool can buy a company; just pay enough

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.