--COLTON.
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think
themselves wise.--LADY MONTAGU.
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in
others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools
ourselves than to have others so.--POPE.
Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that utters
them.--BISHOP HALL.
It would be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him
that he had none.--BABINET.
At thirty man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty, chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,
Resolves--and re-resolves; then dies the same.
--YOUNG.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others,
and to forget his own.--CICERO.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.--POPE.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more
incorrigible.--COLTON.
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once
uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the
last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely
change his opinion.--HELPS.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools.--CHAPMAN.
None but a fool is always right.--HARE.
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no
relations to blush for them.
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