FOOL.
The right to be a cussed fool
Is safe from all devices human,
It's common (ez a gin'l rule)
To every critter born of woman.
The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. 7. J.R. LOWELL.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Prologue to Satires. A. POPE.
The fool hath planted in his memory
An army of good words; and I do know
A many fools, that stand in better place,
Garnished like him, that for a tricksy word
Defy the matter.
Merchant of Venice, Act iii. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
A limbo large and broad, since called
The Paradise of fools, to few unknown.
Paradise Lost, Bk. III. MILTON.
Who are a little wise the best fools be.
The Triple Fool. J. DONNE.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Essay on Criticism, Pt. III. A. POPE.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
The Birth of Flattery. G. CRABBE.
This fellow's wise enough to play the fool;
And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Some positive, persisting fools we know,
Who, if once wrong, will need be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.
Essay on Criticism, Pt. III. A. POPE.