William Congreve - Fools Quotes

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Here she comes i' faith full sail, with her fan spread and streamers out, and a shoal of fools for tenders. — Ha, no, I cry her mercy!

William Congreve

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

William Congreve

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

William Congreve

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

William Congreve

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

William Congreve

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

William Congreve