Trouvé 122 Résultats pour: Fool

• Who is in more perilous case than the fool himself? The man who speaks too soon.✻ (Proverbs 29, 20)

• Fool that thrusts himself forward will prove a fool;✻ he had been better advised to hold his tongue. (Proverbs 30, 32)

• the wise man had eyes in his head, while the fool went his way benighted; but the ending of them? In their ending both were alike. (Ecclesiastes 2, 14)

• Why then (I said to myself), if fool and I must come to the same end at last, was not I the fool, that toiled to achieve wisdom more than he? So my thoughts ran, and I found labour lost, here too. (Ecclesiastes 2, 15)

• Endlessly forgotten, wise man and fool alike, since to-morrow’s memory will be no longer than yesterday’s; wise man and fool alike doomed to death. (Ecclesiastes 2, 16)

• An heir, would he be wise man or fool? None could tell; but his would be the possession of all I had toiled for so hard, schemed for so anxiously; could there be frustration worse than this? (Ecclesiastes 2, 19)

• What wonder if the fool sits idle, and starves to death? (Ecclesiastes 4, 5)

• Is wise man more to be envied than fool? Where should a man go when he is poor, save where he can find a livelihood?✻ (Ecclesiastes 6, 8)

• Sadness, a home for the wise man’s thoughts, mirth for the fool’s. (Ecclesiastes 7, 5)

• Never be quick to take offence; it is a fool’s heart that harbours grudges. (Ecclesiastes 7, 10)

• Never ask why the old times were better than ours; a fool’s question. (Ecclesiastes 7, 11)

• Here is a mind that has passed the whole world of things in review, examining everything, weighing everything, so as to have a wise estimation of them, eager to understand the fool’s rebelliousness, the false calculations of rash souls. (Ecclesiastes 7, 26)