No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool

Quote by George Savile

Topics: Foolishness Quotes

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue...

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue...

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our...

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our...

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a...

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a...

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but...

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but...

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do...

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do...

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy...

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy...

In this Age, when it is said of a man, He knows how to live,...

In this Age, when it is said of a man, He knows how to live,...

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him...

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him...

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be...

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be...

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own...

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own...

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best...

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best...

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business;...

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business;...