Quotes About Foolishness

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper light, he replied philosophically.

How much must a person want out, to put his head in a microwave oven? A dim woman all the kids had known of in Boaz had put her cat in a microwave to dry it after a tick-bath and set the oven just on Defrost and the cat ended up all over the woman's kitchen's walls. How would you rig the thing so it would activate with the door open? Is there just some sort of refrigerator-light button you could hold down and secure with tape? Would the tape melt?

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

That he's mad, 'tis true, 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis, 'tis true —a foolish figure

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

Why, this is very midsummer madness.

If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR. How's that? FOOL. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

Kaç?n?lmaz felaketler kar??s?nda s?zlanmak, gülmek kadar aptalcad?r.

Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.

Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this:—That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel.—THEOBALD.

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For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.