There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.