You can fool a scientist, but you can never fool another magician.
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.]
This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.
There’s no fool like an old fool.
The young people think the old people are fools; but the old people know the young people are fools!
The wise in all ages have always said the same things, and the fools, who at all times form the immense majority, have in their way too acted alike, and done just the opposite; and so it will continue.
The loyalty well held to fools does make our faith mere folly.
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
