The angels must tremble when a fool is in the right.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
If you would not be thought a fool in others conceit, be not wise in your own.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser
HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.
Fools beget their own kind and here was the proof of it and that as only foolish women would have aught to do with them their progeny were twice doomed.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, The Crossing
Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Though fools can censure others, they cannot live free of reproach themselves.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
The man who is foolish at the termination of his life shall always remain a fool.
CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya
When a fool dies there is much shedding of tears in the land whither he is bound.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
- It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
- Resign yourself to be the fool you are.
T. S. ELIOT, The Cocktail Party
Better to listen to the wind ... than to waste time with the words of a fool.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
When dunces call us fools, without proving us to be so, our best retort is to prove them to be fools, without condescending to call them so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
There is one way for a fool to appear wise, that is, to be silent.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Ten gods cannot change the opinion of one fool, especially if another fool agrees with him.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
We must often consider, not what the wise will think, but what the foolish will be sure to say.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
Like gold in the hands of a savage are the sayings of wisdom in the mouth of a fool.
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
A fool and his money are soon parted, but it is remarkable how many fools have money to part from.
Some are contented to wear the mask of foolishness in order to carry on their vicious schemes.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
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