- Quotes by William Temple
“If a man is going to be a villain, in heaven’s name let him remain a fool”. - Quotes by Sir Richard Steele
“No woman of spirit thinks a man hath any respect fo her ’till he hath plaid the fool in her service”. - Quotes by William Shenstone
“A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money”. - Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Lord, what fools these mortals be! But love is blind and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester! If thou remember’st not the slightest folly, That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved. Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune. My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative, And I did laugh sans intermission, An hour by his dial. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. He uses his folly like a stalking-horse and under the presentationof that he shoots his wit. Be absolute for death; either death or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: if I do lose thee, I do lose a thing, That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. So true a fool is love that in your will, Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. And art made tongue-tied by authority, And folly doctor-like controlling skill, And simple truth miscall’d simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill”.
- Quotes by Friedrich von Schiller
“(Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain)”. - Quotes by Bertrand Russell
“The average man’s opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself”. - Quotes by Helen Rowland
“A fool and her money are soon courted”.
Tags: Bertrand Russell, Fools And Foolishness, Friedrich von Schiller, Helen Rowland, Sir Richard Steele, William Shakespeare, William Shenstone, William Temple
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