The fool who sold wisdom coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: marketplace, fools, crowd of people, clown, owl, wigs, money, eye patch, costume, hats,

A FOOL, in town, did wisdom cry ;

The people, eager, flock'd to buy.

Each for his money got,

Paid promptly on the spot,

Besides a box upon the head,

Two fathoms' length of thread.

The most were vex'd but quite in vain,

The public only mock'd their pain.

The wiser they who nothing said,

But pocketed the box and thread.

To search the meaning of the thing

Would only laughs and hisses bring.

Hath reason ever guaranteed

The wit of fools in speech or deed?

'Tis said of brainless heads in France,

The cause of what they do is chance.

One dupe, however, needs must know

What meant the thread, and what the blow

So ask'd a sage, to make it sure.

"They're both hieroglyphics pure,"

The sage replied without delay;

"All people well advised will stay

From fools this fibre's length away,

Or get I hold it sure as fate

The other symbol on the pate.

So far from cheating you of gold,

The fool this wisdom fairly sold."

Fable Meaning: "A fool and his money will soon part"

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The acorn and the pumpkin coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: shadow, pumpkin, acorn and oak, woodland, pumpkin patch, old man, simpleton,

GOD'S works are good. This truth to prove

Around the world I need not move ;

I do it by the nearest pumpkin.

"This fruit so large, on vine so small,"

Surveying once, exclaim'd a bumpkin

"What could He mean who made us all?

He's left this pumpkin out of place.

If I had order'd in the case,

Upon that oak it should have hung

A noble fruit as ever swung

To grace a tree so firm and strong.

Indeed, it was a great mistake,

As this discovery teaches,

That I myself did not partake

His counsels whom my curate preaches.

All things had then in order come;

This acorn, for example,

Not bigger than my thumb,

Had not disgraced a tree so ample.

The more I think, the more I wonder

To see outraged proportion's laws,

And that without the slightest cause;

God surely made an awkward blunder."

With such reflections proudly fraught,

Our sage grew tired of mighty thought,

And threw himself on Nature's lap,

Beneath an oak, to take his nap.

Plump on his nose, by lucky hap,

An acorn fell: he waked, and in

The scarf he wore beneath his chin,

He found the cause of such a bruise

As made him different language use.

" O! O!" he cried; "I bleed! I bleed!

And this is what has done the deed!

But, truly, what had been my fate,

Had this had half a pumpkin's weight !

I see that God had reasons good,

And all His works were understood."

Thus home he went in humbler mood.

Fable Meaning: No mortal man can outwit God.

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The fox the wolf and the horse coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: a fox, wolf and horse depicted in a field, trees, distant hills

A FOX, though young, by no means raw,

Had seen a horse, the first he ever saw:

"Ho! neighbor wolf," said he to one quite green,

"A creature in our meadow I have seen,

Sleek, grand! I seem to see him yet,

The finest beast I ever met."

"Is he a stouter one than we?"

The wolf demanded, eagerly;

"Some picture of him let me see."

" If I could paint," said fox, " I should delight

T' anticipate your pleasure at the sight;

But come; who knows? perhaps it is a prey

By fortune offer'd in our way."

They went. The horse, turn'd loose to graze,

Not liking much their looks and ways,

Was just about to gallop off.

" Sir," said the fox," your humble servants, we

Make bold to ask you what your name may be."

The horse, an animal with brains enough,

Replied, "Sirs, you yourselves may read my name;

My shoer round my heel hath writ the same."

The fox excus'd himself for want of knowledge:

"Me, sir, my parents did not educate, -

So poor, a hole was their entire estate.

My friend, the wolf, however, taught at college,

Could read it were it even Greek."

The wolf, to flattery weak,

Approach'd to verify the boast;

For which four teeth he lost.

The high raised hoof came down with such a blow,

As laid him bleeding on the ground full low.

"My brother," said the fox, "this shows how just

What once was taught me by a fox of wit,

Which on thy jaws this animal hath writ,

'All unknown things the wise mistrust.'"

Fable Meaning: All unknown things, the wise should approach with caution.

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Color in Dolly's friend Teddie

Description of Coloring Page:  girl paper doll, black and white paper dolls to color, Halloween costume, dress-up, teddy bear, mask, costumes for Mardi Gras too

• Grace Drayton creator of Dolly Dingle's friends and relations

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A spring floral wreath for coloring

 

Description of Coloring Page:  flowers, wreath, petals, leaves, ribbon

 

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A portrait of President Lincoln for coloring

 

Description of Coloring Page:  American president, Abraham Lincoln, wreath, suit, portrait of

 

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Color these children playing with masks

Description of Coloring Page:  two coloring pages, one a boy with a rabbit mask, the other a girls with a fox mask, pages for tow dress-up holidays: Halloween and Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), ribbons, faces, portraits of children

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Color a dancing rabbit for Easter

Description of Coloring Page: by Kathy Grimm, polka-dot egg, patterned background, dancing rabbit, floppy ears, big paws

• A simpler version of this rabbit coloring page is here.

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Color in Dolly Dingle's Cousin Carol

Description of Coloring Page:  boy paper doll, black and white paper dolls to color, Halloween costume, dress-up, teddy bear, mask, costumes for Mardi Gras too

• Grace Drayton creator of Dolly Dingle's friends and relations

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Find more of my posts about Pierrot characters:

• Pierrot Cotton Batting Figure Ornament
• Craft a Christmas Candy Wrap Jester from A Clothespin! 
• Print and Color Three Jumping-Jacks for Christmas! 
• Give this clown a face before coloring him in 

Color a Romantic Quote by Chaucer

 

Description of Coloring Page: Geoffrey Chaucer, intertwined flowers and plants, frame design, from "The Book of The Duchess; or, The Dream of Chaucer", text 

 

"A romance and it me took

To read, and drive the night away:

 

By the person of a mourning Knight sitting under an oak is meant John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, greatly lamenting the death of one whom he entirely loved, supposed to be Blanch the Duchess. --Urry.

 

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On the Road to Calvary...

Description of Coloring Page:  the hill where Jesus was crucified, heavy burden, wooden cross, Roman guard, mourning people, Jerusalem, good Friday, defeating death for the sinful, sorrow, bravery, crown of thorns

"They took Jesus therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha." John 1917 (NAS) 

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Mary Magdalene discovers the empty tomb

Description of Coloring Page: sunrise, tomb, stone rolled away, angel visit, spices, lilies, Mary

"Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance." John 20:1 (NLT)

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