“Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce— a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.”
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 16
“In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.”
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Robert Jordan
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The Eye of the World
Thom Merrilin
(15 January 1990)
Source: To the Blight
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Javier Marías
(1951) Spanish writer
Un imbécil detectivesco es un imbécil listo, un imbécil lógico, los peores, porque la lógica de los hombres, en vez de compensar su imbecilidad, la duplica y la triplica y la hace ofensiva.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 30
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Bacchæ l. 480
Variant translation: To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Variant translation: He were a fool, methinks, who would utter wisdom to a fool. (translated by Edward Philip Coleridge)
Variant translation: Wise words being brought to blinded eyes will seem as things of nought. ( translated by Gilbert Murray http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8418/8418-h/8418-h.htm)
Source: The Bacchae
“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”
Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
Act IV, sc. iii
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Nicolas Chamfort
(1741–1794) French writer
As quoted in The Cynic's Breviary : Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort (1902) as translated by William G. Hutchison, p. 37
“There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”
Diane Ackerman
(1948) Author, poet, naturalist
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
“All they that love not tobacco and boys are fools.”
Christopher Marlowe
(1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator
Remark attributed to Marlowe from the testimony of Richard Baines, a government informer, in 1593.
Disputed
“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
Variant: Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
Source: Twelfth Night
“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo