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Topic·Fools✕clear

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 1.3

Fools are here below for our minor pleasures.

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

1747

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

Silence is the virtue of a fool.

1605

★ 2.0

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1881

★ 2.0

Poem · Didactic poem

The fool learns by suffering.

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 2.2

Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

Lord Chesterfield

1747

★ 3.5

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Conversations · 1782

★ 3.6

For say a foolish thing enough… ... The same thing Shall pass at last for absolutely wise, And not with fools exclusively.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1856

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Mostly Harmless · 1992

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It · 1616

★ 3.8

Film · Epic (film) · Science fiction (film) · Epic · Science fiction

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope · 1977

★ 3.8

Poem · Philosophical literature

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.9

Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn In no other.

Benjamin Franklin

1743

★ 5.5

Philosophical literature

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

Rhetoric · 322 BC

★ 5.7