Folly
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
—Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C. Roman poet)
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
—William Shakespeare (1564-1616 British playwright and poet)
It is the nature of a fool to see the faults of others and forget his own.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C. Roman statesman and orator)
Clever people often miss their mark.
—Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928 German novelist)
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American poltician and scientist)
He who thinks himself wise, O, heaven, is a great fool.
—Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet 1694-1778 French writer)
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
—James Gibbons Huneker (1857-1921 American critic)
He’s a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American politician and scientist)
Where there is a flatterer there is also a fool.
—Joseph Addison (1672-1719 British writer and politician)
A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him.
—Boileau Nicolas (1636-1711 French poet)
Prejudice is the reason of fools.
—Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet 1694-1788 French writer)
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865 16th President of the United States)
A fool and his money are soon parted.
—English proverb
Even fools, sometimes speak to the purpose.
—Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906 Norwegian poet and playwright)
Be wise with speed, a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
—Edward Young (1681-1765 British poet)