The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you ...can fool all of the people all of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning; now thou art an O without a figure. I am better than t...hou art now; I am a fool, thou art nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O wretched fool, That lov'st to make thine honesty a vice!... O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world, To be direct and honest is not safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,... And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.... He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, Not, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labor as a wise man's art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »