Source: The Essays of Lord Bacon
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“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.”
“Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.”
“The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)
“Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.”
Source: The Poems of Edward Young ...
“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.”
“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:
“Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.”
“To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
Source: The Guardian
“Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.”
Source: British Theatre: Bonduca
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
Source: Night Thoughts, on Life, Death, and Immortality ... With the life of the author. [With plates, including a portrait.]
“The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.”
“Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you”
Source: Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
Source: To see the dream
Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions
“Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.”
Source: Francis Bacon: Retrospektive
Source: Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall
“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”
Source: Despair
“One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.”
“Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.”
“In love we are all fools alike.”
Source: The Beggar's Opera: As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields : [Text of the Play]
“If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices
“Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.”
“Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.”
Source: Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives
“We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job