Persius Quotes

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

only a fool would argue with a fool!

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

The doctor says to the patient, "Take your clothes off and stick your tongue out the window". "What will that do" asks the patient. The doctor says "I'm mad at my neighbor!".

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

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

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.