The romance of the idiot is a story we tell ourselves over and over, and literature is full of holy fools.
If Warner Music's owners manage to get that much, there can only be two explanations: either Time Warner sold at a crazily low price, or the fund-management industry is full of greater fools.
The downright fact is that the society is full of intellectual fools with a lot of knowledge but no wisdom.
Now it is a commercial wasteland full of scammers and fools.
Katty Kay says that Obama promised to change the world of politics, and because we are still left with a Congress full of dicks and fools, that's totally his fault.
Portraying (as you may have surmised) Lear's Fool, Mr. Irwin is full of fresh sap, and he inspires spring-like hopes.
Folklore and literature are so full of stories about greedy fools who are punished for their haste it makes you think those offers are all too good to be true.
Forget Texas-Oklahoma, Alabama-Auburn or Michigan-Ohio State, The Biggest Little Game in America was about to turn the aptly named barroom Ship of Fools into a room full of either heartbroken or ecstatic football fools.
They seemed to hardly believe they were watching a playground full of sports stars just fooling around.
On the surface then, A Rake's Progress is a stern moral tale, but Hogarth's vision of Tom's downfall is less judgment than lament, full of compassion for the fool at odds with the city.
Even other message boards such as Yahoo s and the Motley Fools were full of raves and rants against the online brokerage, which has more than 676,000 accounts.
