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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
He is a fool
Who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial
disgrace.
[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, read more
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial
disgrace.
[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa
proverbio est.]
All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness read more
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their
birth, and at the post--their death; only read more
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.
