Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Fool

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings.
—William Shakespeare

A fool, like a bottle, which would make you merry in company, will make you dull alone.
—Sir John Vanbrough

Fools, like apes, are mimics from their birth.
—William Whitehead