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“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;
And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time,
And, like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practise
As full of labour as a wise man's art
For folly that he wisely shows is fit;
But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.

The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.

The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.

The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.

The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.

The moral of the story?

Kids are smart.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― C. S. Lewis

“To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times”
― Munia Khan

“I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.

A foolish sage is one who forgets this.

Remember, or come full circle.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“[...] Y'know, the Duchess Regan is living here at the tower now? I took your advice about not talking about her boffnacity [footnote], even with the duke dead and all, can't be too careful. Although, I caught sight of her in a dressing gown one day she was up on the parapet outside her solar. Fine flanks on that princess, despite the danger of death and all for sayin' so, sir." -Yeomen
Aye, the lady is fair, and her gadonk as fine as frog fur [...]" -Pocket

footnote: Boffnacity: an expression of shagnatiousness, fit. from the Latin boffusnatious”
― Christopher Moore, Fool

“Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble stone, and has no more pity in him than a dog. A Jew would have wept to have seen our parting. Why, my grandam, having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This shoe is my father. No, this left shoe is my father. No, no, this left shoe is my mother. Nay, that cannot be so neither. Yes, it is so, it is so -- it hath the worser sole. This shoe with the hole in it is my mother, and this my father. A vengeance on't! There 'tis. Now, sir, this staff is my sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and as small as a wand. This hat is Nan, our maid. I am the dog. No, the dog is himself, and I am the dog -- O, the dog is me, and I am myself. Ay, so, so. Now come I to my father: 'Father, your blessing.' Now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping. Now should I kiss my father -- well, he weeps on. Now come I to my mother. O, that she could speak now like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her -- why, there 'tis: here's my mother's breath up and down. Now come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a word!”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Not yet!" said she [Goneril], trying to roll me over and get back to smacking my bum.
She honked my codpiece.
You honked my codpiece."
Aye, give it up, fool." [...]”
― Christopher Moore, Fool

“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.”
― Anonymous

“She doesn't need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That's just miracle.”
― Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody

“Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“You don’t have to be fool just because the whole world is fool!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.”
― Thiruman Archunan

“Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, "Don't you believe in second chances?"
The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun.
"Sonny Lee always said, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Sorcerer Heir

“You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“None of them seemed to mind sliding around in the faeces and choking in the smoke. They were determined not to miss the opportunity of watching a foreigner make a fool of himself.”
― Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines

“Ignorance is no reason with a fool for holding his tongue.”
― George MacDonald, Mary Marston

“Twice the wit is needed to deal with someone with none.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“Fool is Alright”
― مسعد العرباني

“Choiceâ€� and ‘consequenceâ€� are the two sides of a single coin. And the fool bent upon selfish ambition will adamantly declare that it is entirely possible to mint a coin with only one side.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The giant only seems far away because we’ve yet to recognize that it’s as close as us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The Term 'Conspiracy Theory' is nothing more than a provocative Catchword, which every unknowing Fool can throw against a critical Thinker's Head, just to desperately try to humiliate him.”
― Sino Melo

“Too often human logic looks sound...until it’s held up against most anything else.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The slang 'Educated Fool' might be discovered by the Educated Society, but it is mainly used by fools.”
― Md. Naeem Aziz