Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
will be meddling.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
will be meddling.

A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their
birth, and at the post--their death; only read more

A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their
birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race
of their lives.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into read more

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old in drawing nothing up.

All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools.

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness read more

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a
pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.