Fool

Famous quotes containing the word fool:

“The fool saith, I have no friends, I have no thanks for all my good deeds, and they that eat my bread speak evil of me.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 20:16.

“When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.”
—Ilka Chase (b. 1905)

“How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)