A Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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Admire Always Finds Fool Greater Him

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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
French - Poet
November 1, 1636 - March 13, 1711

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

William Shakespeare

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.

Desmond Bagley

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.

Harold MacMillan

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

William Wycherley

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.

William Shakespeare

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

Christopher Moore

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Phyllis Bottome

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?

William Wycherley

But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

James G. Frazer

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

Garth Brooks

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

David Lloyd George

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.