"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."

"The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge."

"A fool must now and then be right by chance."

"Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes."

"More knave than fool."

"Stultitiam simulare loco, prudentia summa est."

"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

"To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd, And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd."

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

"FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life."

"For tho' the faults were thick as dust In vacant chambers, I could trust Your kindness."

"Invitat culpam qui delictum præterit."

"Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum."

"Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat."

"Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri oportet."

"Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas. Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit; Alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem."

"Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed præcedenti spectatur mantica tergo."

"Qui s'excuse, s'accuse."

"Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?"

"Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them."

"His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities."

"Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival."

"Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les défauts de ses qualités."

"The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces."

"Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel."

"Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I."

"Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum."

"Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quæ ipsorum culpa ferenda sunt."

"Suus quoque attributus est error: Sed non videmus, manticæ quid in tergo est."

"Faults that are rich are fair."

"Her only fault, and that is faults enough, Is that she is intolerable curst And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure That, were my state far worser than it is, I would not wed her for a mine of gold."

"Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. All men make faults."

"Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault."

"Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done; Mine were the very cipher of a function, To fine the faults whose fine stands in record, And let go by the actor."

"All's not offence that indiscretion finds."

"And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patched."

"So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!"

"Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth."

"Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it."

"I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults."

"The glorious fault of angels and of gods."

"You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit."

"Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite."

"Our own faults are those we are the first to detect, and the last to forgive, in others."

"Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt."