Fortunate Fool

Famous quotes containing the words fortunate and/or fool:

“Were I to buy this life of pleasure and this only chance at happiness with a few little dangers, where would be the harm? And wouldn’t it still be fortunate to find a weak excuse to give her proof of my love?”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.”
—Welsh proverb.