Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.
Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.
How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
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.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.