«A fool»

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Miguel de Unamuno

No one but a fool is always right.

David Hare

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Benjamin Franklin

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Charles Simmons

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool - and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Carl Sandburg

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Henry Fielding

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Andrew Carnegie

He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

Karl G. Maeser

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Peter Ustinov

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Harold MacMillan

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Bruce Lee

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

Francois Rabelais

A fool is wise in his eyes.

King Solomon