| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. |
| Bible | It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. |
| Bible | Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. |
| Bible | Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. |
| Bible | The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. |
| Cervantes Saavedra | Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion. |
| Cervantes Saavedra | More knave than fool. |
| Charles Churchill | Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. |
| Homer | He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past. |
| Nicolas Boileau Despreaux | A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. |
| Pierre Charron | The shortest follies are the best. |
| Samuel Butler | To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. |
| Thomas Fuller | A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives. |
| William Cowper | The solemn fog, significant and budge, A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. |
| Francis Bacon | The folly of one man is the fortune of another. |
| William Cowper | Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. |
| William Cowper | Exactness is the sublimity of fools. |
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