
A Credo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A Credo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.”
Moiraine Damodred
(15 October 1993)
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Sometimes attributed to Ackerman this actually originates with Nicolas Chamfort, as quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
Misattributed
“4693. The older a Fool is, the worse he is.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Life's tough, but I'm tougher! (I pity the fool)”
Quotes from acting
“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.”
Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 3, P. 57
" Bill Clinton Explains Why He Became a Vegan http://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-08-2013/bill-clinton-vegan.html" by Joe Conason, AARP The Magazine, August/September 2013.
2010s
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 7, On The Shame of the Cities
Interview in The Observer, 1990
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, Police Dictatorships
Quote in Gainsborough's letter to Hon. Constantine Phipps, undated; as cited in 'My Dear Maggoty Sir – The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough' http://thedabbler.co.uk/2011/10/my-dear-maggoty-sir-the-letters-of-thomas-gainsborough/, review by Roger Hudson, in Slightly Foxed, 18 Oct, 2011
undated
As quoted in the article 'End of an Era?' in Live and Kicking magazine (2000)
“Tis hard if all is false that I advance,
A fool must now and then be right by chance.”
Source: Conversation (1782), Line 96.
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in (August 25, 2016)
Matt. 25:30
Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 21
"Sweden — Ship of fools" (13 October 2014) https://youtube.com/watch/?v=RZsvdg1dkJ4
2014
Source: Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003), Chapter 6, Hierarchies, Complex Fractal Dimensions, And Log Periodicity, p. 185.
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Life is outside of the box now and if you're inside of the box, you'll suffocate.
2014-12-16
The Glenn Beck Program
http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/12/16/three-unbelievable-news-stories-three-crazy-glenn-predictions-one-must-watch-monologue/, quoted in * 2014-12-17
'I See The Future': Glenn Beck Begs His Audience 'Not To Listen To The Experts In This Country Anymore'
Kyle
Mantyla
RightWingWatch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/i-see-future-glenn-beck-begs-his-audience-not-listen-experts-country-anymore
2014-12-19
2010s, 2014
As quoted in "Fox News' Shep Smith to Trump: You owe the American people answers" http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-shep-smith-to-trump-you-owe-the-american-people-answers/ar-AAn1RFA?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp (February 16, 2017), by Brooke Seipel, The Hill
2010s
Facebook statement https://www.facebook.com/mittromney/posts/10154652303536121 (18 August 2017)
2017
pg. 345
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Festival of Fools
“The jibba jabba stops here! (I pity the fool)”
Quotes from acting
Richard Dawkins, "Science Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder" https://www.edge.org/conversation/science-delusion-and-the-appetite-for-wonder, John Brockman, Edge.org, 1.2.97.
“Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.”
Book I, Ch. 16.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
Letter to F. W. Cobden (23 March 1844) on the Factory Act 1844, quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), p. 302.
1840s
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
Falsehood, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Lines 8–9
En toutes compagnies il y a plus de folz que de sages, et la plus grande partie surmonte tousjours la meilleure.
Chapter 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=wfRKAQAAIAAJ&q=%22En+toutes+compagnies+il+y+a+plus+de+folz+que+de+sages+et+la+plus+grande+partie+surmonte+tousjours+la+meilleure%22&pg=PA285#v=onepage.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532)
What Made America Famous?
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“In blaming others, fools their folly show,
And most attempt to speak when least they know.”
Il volgare ignorante ognun riprenda,
E parli più di quel che meno intenda.
Canto XXVIII, stanza 1 (tr. J. Hoole)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Nor could the foole abstaine,
But drunke as often.”
Homer's Odysses (1614), Book IX, line 496
The Naulahka http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/Naulahka/index.html, ch. 5 (1892).
Other works
(from vol 2, letter 13: 29 Nov 1778, to Mr S___ in Madras).
“A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.”
Latter Day Pamphlets, No. 6.
1850s
“Fools follow rules when the set commands you.”
Bullet in the Head.
Song lyrics, Rage Against the Machine (1992)
“It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P. S.: I never inherited any money.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.
OneIndia, Thursday, 2009, " 'Indian public is not fool' - Rahul Bose http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/features/2009/bose-the-foundation-081009.html" by Joginder Tuteja
Burton to Lord Houghton as quoted in The Devil Drives: A life of Sir Richard Burton (1984) by Fawn Brodie.
“He was an arrogant, pigheaded doctrinaire fool.”
About Robert Muldoon, From the documentary Robert Muldoon: The Grim Face of Power, 1994
Notebook E, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945)
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Spoken at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895, as quoted in "American Heritage," (December 1968).
Wong Shun Leung: "Your hand is able to reach your opponent long before your foot."
Practical Fighting Concepts
Source: Interview with Wong Shun Leung, by: Erle Montaigue http://www.vingtsunupdate.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=77
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 3: 1920
“Who are a little wise, the best fools be.”
The Triple Fool, stanza 2
“I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.”
Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 108)
“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”
The Pathos of Distance (1915), p. 257
The Oprah Winfrey Show, January 23, 2006
"The next … months" in Iraq
“Mr. T has the greatest hair in the world. You can't deny it, it's been proven by science, fool!”
World of Warcraft Advert (2007)
“98. A Fool and his Money are soon parted.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
1940 - 1955
Source: Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana 1952, p. 226-227
Part III Poems, "A Vision Of a Wrangler, of a University, of Pedantry, and of Philosophy. " (November 10, 1852)
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)
“A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
La passion qui, remarquez-le, porte son esprit avec elle, peut donner aux niais, aux sots, aux imbéciles une sorte d’intelligence, surtout pendant la jeunesse.
Source: A Bachelor's Establishment (1842), Ch. IX.
An Innocent Man.
Song lyrics, An Innocent Man (1983)
“Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.”
Le plus fou souvent est le plus satisfait.
Satire 4, l. 128
Satires (1716)
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“So weak thou art, that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.”
To Love, found in Miss Vanhomrigh's desk after her death, in Swift's handwriting
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 3, The Curse of Civil Service Reform
"No Surrender"
Song lyrics, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
1930s
Source: 'I and my purpose', in the journal 'Merz', no. 21, (1931)
Source: 2000s, Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the Twenty-First Century (2007), p. 332