Alexander Pope Fool Quotations

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.