Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Silence is the wit of fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Fools are without number.