Ben Jonson Quotes

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Courage and folly are cousins, or so I’ve heard.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

Wishers were ever fools.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.