He asked if their ancestors brought any back, again the answer was "no"; whereon he told them their story must be a lie, for their ancestors could never have been such fools as to come back without some.

Little recks he of the clouds below, and knows not at all the little self-satisfied fools who pity him," and he thought this was the sum of all wisdom, and that with it would come immortality.

"Keep on blaying, you tam fools!

Already I hear the eternal flock of hypocrites and fools protesting and crying out at outraged morality.

High-sounding, hollow words which enable hypocrites to take advantage of the common people; fantastic passion kindled in the heart of fools for the amazement of the simple!

Love makes fools wise.

No more than these; and born but to compete To envy and devour, like beast or herb; Mere fools of nature; puppets of strong lusts, Taking the sword, to perish with the sword Upon the universal battle-field, Even as the things upon the moor outside?

Can't the fools do anything for her?

Free trade was at once declared by glances, whispers and inquiries from a succession of well-dressed young gentlemen, wise doubtless in their own conceit, yet not wanting in that worldly temerity which impels fools to rush in where angels fear to tread, and gives the former class of beings, in their dealings with that sex which is compounded of both, an immeasurable advantage over the latter.

Fellows had all been fools once, but no woman should ever make a fool of him again!

Good gracious, what a pack of fools!"

I will be very inquisitive and solicitous about the company chosen by my servants; and with all possible earnestness will rescue them from the snares of evil company, and forbid their being the companions of fools.

She wouldn't be put off with second-rate jobs; she wouldn't be dowdy and unimportant, like her mother and the other fools; she would have the best that was going.

The Anti-Potters abused every government concerned, and Gideon said, on August 1st, 'We shall be fools if we don't come in.'

Then it became obvious that too many fools were scrambling to get sent abroad, and anyhow, that, if Clare was nursing, it must be a mug's game, and that there must be a better field for her own energies elsewhere.

'What fools the fellows are to go on sending us their rubbish.

Well, what about an article, thenwe'd get Neilson to do oneon the whole tribe of fiction-writing fools, taking Lady Pinkerton for a peg to hang it on? ...

The people of those States will never be such fools, as to give up so important an interest.

Him say dem who make bargain are fools; beside him no call up a parcel of niggers to hold service wid me; should only get laughed at.

But women and fools always will be fools; there is no help for that!

But women and fools always will be fools; there is no help for that!

Fools might blunder, but they would not persist, if people that ought to set them right did not encourage them to go wrong.

And were Older and Wiser people's jokes ever funny?" "We were fools often," said Mr. Russell.

Richardson was one of those men who are not at their ease in other men's society, and whom other men, to put it plainly, are apt to regard as coxcombs and fools.

He has just told himself [page 186] that Some, the most resolved fools of all, Have told their dearest secrets in their cups, when Enter Sandford in haste.