What They Say About Fools...

· But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. — 1 Cor 1:27
· However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. — Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
· [Politicians] never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. — Thomas Reed
· He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks. — François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
· The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer
· Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. — Elizabeth Gaskell
· Looking foolish does the spirit good. — John Updike
· Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. — Mark Twain
· A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. — William Blake
· A fool must now and then be right by chance. — Cowper
· It is better to be a fool than to be dead. — Stevenson
· The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. — Mark Twain
Who Is Not a Fool?" ["Qui non stultus?"]
—Horace (65-8 B.C.), Satires, 2.3.158
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.(see it in Indian Political cotext and wide shining publicity - The Sales Digest)
—William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (3.1.39-40)
We have all seen how an appropriate and well-timed joke can sometimes influence even grim tyrants. . . . The most violent tyrants put up with their clowns and fools, though these often made them the butt of open insults.
~Desiderius Erasmus