Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

A fop sometimes gives important advice.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.