“In blaming others, fools their folly show,
And most attempt to speak when least they know.”

“Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.”

“John Brown deserves to be hung for being a hopeless fool! He attempted to capture Virginia with seventeen men when he ought to know that it would require at least twenty-five.”

“It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.”

“There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.”

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

“I envy people who drink — at least they know what to blame everything on.”

“What more our folly shows,
Than while we others seek, ourselves to lose?”

“Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.”

“It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.”