Francis Quarles Quotes

The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

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

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.

One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

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

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.

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

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

People make fools out of themselves in all sorts of ways. No particular qualifications or particular criteria are necessary.

We are fooles one to another.

Fools make news, and wise men carry it.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.