fool

sarcasm

toast (speech)

Cockney Rhyming Slang

metafolklore

persistence

is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right. Voltaire

is never satisfied by anything, wile few things are needful to make the wiseman happy.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool... - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is one who sees himself as another while a wise man sees others as himself.

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself. Dogen

is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.] Jean de la Bruyere

is one with an inability to take even his own good advice.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

is sometimes endowed with talent but never judgment.

Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is one who calls wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool. Thomas A. Edison

fool, n.All

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