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"All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best."
"The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy."
"I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked."
"The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits."
"He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit."
"Fools are not mad folks."
"I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not."
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger."
"I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool."
"They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others."
"I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."
"A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right."
"Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side."
"A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself."
"The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up."
"Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions."
"In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes"
"Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man."
"Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve."
