Foolishness

"Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die."

"We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile— The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry."

"The folly of one man is the fortune of another."

"Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire."

"Fool me no fools."

"Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame."

"Mas acompañados y paniguados debe di tener la locura que la discrecion."

"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."

"Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures."

"Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce."

"Stultorum plena sunt omnia."

"Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est."

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?"

"L'exactitude est le sublime des sots."

"A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity."

"He is a fool Who only sees the mischiefs that are past."

"Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat."

"Adde cruorem Stultitiæ, atque ignem gladio scrutare."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"Fears of the brave and follies of the wise."

"Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de mérite."

"Hélas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pâti des sottises des grands."

"Ce livre n'est pas long, on le voit en une heure; La plus courte folie est toujours la meilleure."

"Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit."

"Un sot n'a pas assez d'étoffe pour être bon."

"A fool! a fool! my coxcomb for a fool!"

"I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain."

"Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so."

"Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs."

"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave."

"No creature smarts so little as a fool."

"Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please."

"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise."

"Every fool will be meddling."

"Answer a fool according to his folly."

"Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him."

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."

"Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt, stulti eruditis videntur."

"After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly."

"Stultus est qui fructus magnarum arborum spectat, altitudinem non metitur."

"Insipientis est dicere, Non putaram."

"Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!"

"Inter cætera mala hoc quoque habet Stultitia semper incipit vivere."

"'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away."

"He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells, and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again."

"He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers."

"Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?"

"Le sot est comme le peuple, qui se croit riche de peu."

"Qui se croit sage, ô ciel! est un grand fou."

"The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then."