“Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
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Source: Blake: The Complete Poems
“A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.”
Source: 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
Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice
“A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.”
Source: The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings
“Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”
Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life
“A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.”
Source: The Paradise lost
Source: The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope
“The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.”
Source: Alice Adams
“Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.”
“Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke
“Knaves starve not in the land of fools.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
Source: The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger...
“The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.”
“Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.”
“You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.”
“By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.”
“It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.”
Source: Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha
Source: The Dhammapada
“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”
Source: The Absolute Sandman
Source: Yes Please