Sentence examples for a great fool from inspiring English sources

Each has discovered that the other is a fool, but a great fool.

This quality also links his story with the primitive folktale theme of a great fool or simple.

Boswell was a "great fool," Macaulay wrote in 1831, and while conceding the merits of the Life, he added that it was a book only a fool could have written.

Only a great fool would call that sentimental.

It was about finding a greater fool to pay up".

When you sell a piece on, then you cannot help but think you are selling to a greater fool.

"People are bidding up mediocre assets hoping that a greater fool will come along to buy them," says Tim Price, of Union Bancaire Privée, a bank.

But if you invest in gold you're basically betting that someday a greater fool will come along, who thinks gold is worth more than you do.

"This IPO game isn't about finding value, it's about finding a greater fool who actually believes the valuation is true.

There is always a greater fool.

Looking for a greater fool is the essence of speculation.