Fool Doth Quotes

#1. The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1

Stephen Fry

#2. While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines.
[While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.]

George Herbert

#3. The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

William Shakespeare

#4. In Shakespeare's play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).

Karolina Achirri

#5. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

#6. 6. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: 8. But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore.

Anonymous

#7. Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

Joseph Hall

#8. The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.

William Shakespeare

#9. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife ...
O, I am fortune's fool! ...
Then I defy you, stars.

William Shakespeare

#10. What many men desire
that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.

William Shakespeare

#11. Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.

William Shakespeare