A Quote by Ben Jonson
Man and wife make one fool.
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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.
Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.
If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
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