Foolishness
A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him.
——Boileau Nicolas， French poet and critic
傻瓜总会发现有比他更傻的人在赞美他。
——法国诗人、批评家B.尼古拉斯
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
——Edward Young， British poet
人到四十还愚蠢，那就真正是愚蠢了。
——英国诗人E.杨格
A fool knows more in his own house than a wise man in anotherˊs.
——George Herbert， British poet
蠢人在自己家里知道的事情要比聪明人在别人家里知道的多。
——英国诗人 G.赫伯特
Anger begins with folly， and ends in repentance.
——Pythagoras， Ancient Greek mathematician
愤怒以愚蠢开始，以后悔告终。
——古希腊数学家毕达哥拉斯
Being reluctant to think， unwilling to study intensively and under stand deeply and being complacent and satisfied at negligible knowledge all are the cause of
poor intelligence， which can be gemmed as “foolish”.
——Maxim Gorky， Russian writer
懒于思索、不愿意钻研和深入理解、自满和满足于微不足道的知识，都是智力贫乏的原因。
这种贫乏通常用两个字来称呼，那就是“愚蠢”。
——俄国作家 M.高尔基
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
——Martin Luther King， American leader of nonviolent civil right movement
世界上再也没有比实实在在的无知和认认真真的愚蠢更危险的了。
——美国非暴力民权运动领袖马丁·路德·金
Politeness is not always the sign of wisdom， but the want of it always leaves room for the suspicion of folly.
——Walter Savage Landor， British writer
有礼貌不一定总是智慧的标志，可是不礼貌总使人怀疑其愚蠢。
——英国作家 W. S.兰道
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
——William Hazlitt， British writer and critic
偏见来自愚昧。
——英国作家、评论家 W.哈兹里特
Prejudice is the reason of fools.
——Voltaire， French philosopher
偏见是蠢人的推论。
——法国哲学家伏尔泰
Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
——John F.Kennedy， American president
那些愚蠢地骑在老虎背上追求权力的人，最终被老虎吞进肚子里。
——美国总统 J. F.肯尼迪
The dullardˊs envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
——Max Beerbohm， British writer
笨人对聪明人的嫉妒常因他们不会善终的猜测而得以减弱。
——英国作家 M.毕尔博姆爵士
The jealous are troublesome to others， but a torment to themselves.
——William Penn， British admiral
嫉妒者对别人是烦恼，对他们自己却是折磨。
——英国海军上将 W.佩恩
To be proud of learning， is the greatest ignorance.
——Jereny Taylor， American compose
以学识自傲是最大的无知。
——美国作曲家 J.泰勒
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue， and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
——Horace， Ancient Roman poet
远离罪恶是美德之始；摆脱愚蠢乃智慧之源。
——古罗马诗人贺拉斯
Too much cleverness is folly.
——Solon， Ancient Athenian statesman
过分聪明反而愚蠢。
——古雅典政治家梭伦
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of， he always declared that it is his duty.
——George Bernard Shaw， British dramatist
蠢人做自己感到羞愧的事情时，总是宣称那是他的职责。
——英国剧作家 G.萧伯纳
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by his sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
——Jonathan Swift， British satire writer
当一个真正的天才问世时，你可以根据一种现象来认识他，即所有蠢材联合一致来反对他。
——英国讽刺作家 J.斯威夫特
Where there is a flatterer， there is also a fool.
——Joseph Addison， British writer
哪里有拍马屁的人，那里就有傻瓜。
——英国作家 J.阿狄生
You can fool some of the people all the time，and all of the people some of the time， but you canˊt fool all of the people all the time.
——Phineas T.Barnum， American programmed broker
你可以一直愚弄一些人，或者可以在某个时期愚弄所有的人；但你不可能一直愚弄所有的人。
——美国节目经纪人 P. T.巴纳姆