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Fools and Foolishness

Bible, Proverbs 26:4–5
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.

William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Nicolas Boileau, L'Art poétique
A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him.

Cato the Elder, quoted in Plutarch's Parallel Lives
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

William Cowper, “Conversation”
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
Fortune, that favors fools.[John Gay wrote in his Fables: Tis a gross error held in schools, That Fortune always favors fools.]

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Helen Rowland, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Shakespeare, As You Like It
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lord, what fools these mortals be![Seneca had made exactly the same observation in his Epistulae ad Lucilium.]

Mark Twain, Following the Equator, “Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar”
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.And last but not least,

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