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“I'm a man of a certain age - old enough to have been every kind of fool- and I find to my surprise that the only counsel I have to pass on is this: Never let your name be found in a dead man's trousers.”

Men Kind Has Beens Enough Age Certain Found Names Fool Surprise Dead Man Trousers

Book:The Black Tower: A Novel

Source: The Black Tower: A Novel

“Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil.”

Might Masters Fool Devil Clever Luke Complication Devious

Author:Roberto Giobbi

“The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.”

Rich Fool Riches Fats Pigs

Author:Confucius

“... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.”

Character Fool Determined

Book:Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.”

People Believe Moments Three I Believe Born Fool Tragedy Intelligence Impatient Unintelligent

Book:My Life and Some Letters

Source: My Life and Some Letters

“The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]”

Fool Shame Wounds Folly Mali

Author:Horace

“A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.”

Men Wise Fool Reader Flight

Author:Horace

“He can afford to be a fool.”

Fool

Author:Horace

“In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.”

Fool Opposites Vices Extremes Avoiding

Author:Horace

“A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.”

Happens Fool Idiot

Book:Felix Holt, The Radical

Source: Felix Holt, The Radical

“What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]”

Knowledge Fool Harm Pot Slippers Mittens

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.”

Worst Fool Temper Thieves

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Children Form Liberty Fool Eloquence Foster Children

Author:Tacitus

“Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.”

Fool Defects

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.”

Men World Want Three Language Knowing Source Pride Fool Ill Manners Behave Defects

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”

Seems Wish Wise Fool Foolish Folly

Author:Quintilian

“Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.”

Men Made Failing Dangerous Fool Ridiculous Clever Good Man Credulity Knaves Gullibility Clever Man

Book:A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

“An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.”

Thinking Stills United States Laughing Risk Fool Laughter England Fellows Laughed Englishmen

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“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.”

Ifs Men Fool Consequence Cures Vanity Folly

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.”

Kind Shows Talking Fool Speech Tongue

Author:Kate Langley Bosher

“Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!”

Self Spirit Social Christianity Fool Cells One Time Alas Bigots Knaves

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.”

Firsts Looks Two Lasts Past Law Party Fashion Fool Description Customs Novelty Clash Legislators Precedent

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.”

Men May Might Faith Wise Fool Mass Weakness Miracle Credulity

Book:Tupper's Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated : first and second series

Source: Tupper's Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated : first and second series

“Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.”

Mean Enough Language Answers Feet Fool Terror Thee Contempt Betray Ridicule Mock Scoffers

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.”

Made Sometimes Seems Policy Ready Fool Philosopher Desirable

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.”

Thinking Fool

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.”

Feelings Age Fool Checks Restaurants Coats Pretense

Author:Joan Rivers

“Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.”

Knows May Persons Art Silence Quality Opinion Fool Conversation Gains Credit Tongue Wit Silence Is Great Art Eloquence Art Of Conversation

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.”

Long Has Beens Plans Minutes Fool Conversation Disappear Perceive Troublesome Tiresome

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]”

Men Believe Fool Fats Merit Folly Be A Man Simpletons

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]”

Men Principles Fool Admire Merit Neglect Admirer Memes Encores

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.”

Knows Men Might Next Consciousness Know How Fool Wit Best Things Behave

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.”

Men Helping Watches Struggle Greater Fate Fool Weakness Gains Advantage Intelligent Fingers Lifts Great Men Bankruptcy Intelligent Man Grocers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to a ballad, from a ballad to an ode, from an ode to a cantata, and from a cantata to a dithyramb. A husband who begins with the dithyramb is a fool.”

Love Pleasure Fool Husband Sonnet Ballads Odes

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”

Doe Wisdom Motivational Lasts Wise Stupid Fool Life Changing Wrestling Playing The Fool

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”

“To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.”

Deals Dangerous Fool Knaves Incorrigible

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.”

Needs Hands Faces Poetry Land Youth Poet Fool All Things Driven Crafts Distraction One Time Verses Toil Accustomed Seeming

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.”

People Fool Relation

Book:Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife

Source: Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife

“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.”

Mean Father Fool Idle Boast Nobility Ancestry

Author:James Gates Percival

“For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.”

Thinking Knows Men Conditions Creation Fool Respectable Rascals Respectable Man

Book:THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship

Source: THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship

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