Fools. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Fools


Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. Chapman.—All Fools, Act V. Scene 1.	1
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters. Swift.—Sermon 9. (Roscoe’s Life of Swift.)	2
The world is grown so bad That wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch. Shakespeare.—King Richard III., Act I. Scene 3.	3
While timorous knowledge stands considering, Audacious ignorance hath done the deed. Daniel.	4
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. Cowper.—Conversation, Line 145.	5
No place so sacred from such fops is barr’d, Nor is Paul’s church more safe than Paul’s churchyard: Nay, fly to altars; there they’ll talk you dead: For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope.—Essay on Criticism, Part III. Line 623. (Taken from Boileau’s Art of Poetry.)	6
Where Mars might quake to tread. Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto I. Stanza 54.	7
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. Young.—Night IV. Line 842.	8