Better be a fool than a knave.
?Proverb
Now will I show myself to have more
of the serpent than the dove;
that is, more knave than fool.
?Christopher Marlowe
Give fools their gold, and knaves their
power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and
fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all.
?John Greenleaf Whittier
A knave?s religion is always
the rottenest thing about him.
?John Ruskin
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events
mostly unimportant, which are brought about by
rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
?Ambrose Bierce
Honest men are the soft easy
cushions on which knaves
Repose and fatten.
?Thomas Otway
