FOLLY
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
Fool me no fools.
To swallow gudgeons ere they're cateh'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.
More knave than fool.
Mas acompañados y paniguados debe di tener
la locura que la discrecion.
Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.
The shortest follies are the best.</poem>
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
CHuRcmiiL—Apology. L. 42.
Stultorum plena sunt omnia.
All places are filled with fools.
Cicero—Epistles. IX. 22.
Culpa enim ilia, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is
a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero—Epistles. X. 20.
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?
And ain't that a big enough majority in any
town?
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
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| work = Conversation. L. 96.
The solemn fog; significant and budge;
A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.
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| work = Conversation. L. 299.
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| text = <poem>Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.
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| work = Task. Bk. III. L. 187.
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| text = <poem>L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.
Exactness is the sublimity of fools.
Attributed to Fontenelle, who disclaimed it.
A fool and a wise man are alike both in the
starting-place—their birth, and at the post—
their death; only they differ in the race of their
lives.
Fuller—The Holy and Profane States. Of
Natural Fools. Maxim IV.
A rational reaction against irrational excesses
and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
Gladstone—Time and Place of Homer. Introductory.
21 He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. XVII. L. 39.
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Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.
The shame of fools conceals their open
wounds.
Horace—Epistles. I. 16. 24.
Adde cruorem
Stultitiae, atque ignem gladio scrutare.
To your folly add bloodshed, and stir the
fire with the sword.
Horace—Satires. II. 3. 275.
A man may be as much a fool from the want
of sensibility as the want of sense.
Mrs. Jameson—Studies. Detached Thoughts.
P. 122.
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
Samuel Johnson. Vanity of Human Wishes.
Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de
merite.
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be
a man of merit.
La Bruyère—Les Caractères. XII.
Hflas! on voit que de tout temps
Les Petits ont p&ti des sottises des grands.
Alas! we see that the small have always
suffered for the follies of the great.
La Fontaine—Fables. II. 4.
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| num = | text = <poem>Ce livre n'est pas long, on le voit en une heure;
La plus courte folie est toujours la meilleure. This book is not long, one may run over it in an hour; the shortest folly is always the best. La Girandiere—Le Recueil des Voyeux Epir grammes.
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