Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of noble longings and of noble strivings! And oh, these wise, clever days when we know that money is the only prize worth striving for, when we believe in nothing else but meanness and lies, when we care for no living creature but ourselves!英文原著 · 《Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow》
"Come back! Come back to me, my beloved! Oh, I was a fool! Such a fool as women are when they think of such things as heaven and truth and right! A fool! A fool!"英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
"She is unhappy," he murmured at length. "It is not difficult to see that.... Unhappy and lonely. Oh, fool, fool to have left her when you might have stayed! Oh, fool, fool, not to find the strength to leave her now when you should not remain!"英文原著 · 《The Pit》
blind fool! can't you very well see, These are three pudding-bags my mother sent to me?' 'Ods bobs! well done! pudding-bags with spurs on! The like was never known!' Old Wichet a cuckold went out, and a cuckold he came home! I went into the dairy, and there for to see, And there I saw three hats hang, by one, by two, and by three; O! I called to my loving wife, and 'Anon, kind sir!' quoth she; 'Pray what do these three hats here, without the leave of me?'
'Why, you old fool! blind fool!英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
CYRANO: None is a fool who knows himself a fool. And you did not attack me like a fool.英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
I told him that there was the wise as well as the foolish that do hear me; and again, those that were most commonly counted foolish by the world are the wisest before God; also, that God had rejected the wise, and mighty, and noble, and chosen the foolish, and the base.英文原著 · 《Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners》