Fanny Kemble Quotes

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

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

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

We often despise that which is most useful to us.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

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

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Some of the best people i know are fools', Evanelle said. 'The strongest people I know.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

We are fooles one to another.

In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.

He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.