John Gay Quotes

Fortune, that favors fools.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

There's good random, and there's bad random. There's good silly and there's bad silly, and you've gotta know the difference.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

'Tis folly to be wise.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

No one but a fool is always right.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

There is no sin except stupidity.