John Dryden Fool Quotations

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings / I bore this wren till I was tired with soaring, / And now he mounts above me.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day.

True fops help nature's work, and go to school - to file and finish God Almighty's fool