John Wilmot Quotes

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

The least foolish is wise.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

Some people are more nice than wise.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.