“When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.” IfsMenWayLoveFeelsHas BeensStoriesThreeLove IsWifeConditionsMastersFoolKingsMarriedLet MeMadnessFortyWarningTemperDeliciousThree TimesWisestMarried LifeBeen In LoveSolomonPretty Woman Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
“Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.” ChildrenFashionFoolGuidesFollyWisest Author:George Crabbe
“Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.” MenPassionInspireFoolWitWisestWisest Man Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.” MenWisdomFoolWisestWisest Man Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.” ThinkingMenWisdomHappinessDifferencesHumilityFoolComparisonWisestHappiest Man Author:Francis Bacon
“Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.” MenWorldMayRememberAsksAnswersFoolWisestWisest Man Author:Bryant H. McGill
“[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.” MenStoriesLaughingFoolWineDancingAlcoholLungsWisestLeading MeBest WineWisest ManWine And LoveWine LoveWine Tasting Book:The odyssey Source: The odyssey
“Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.” MenGivingPassionFoolWisestWisest Man Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld