A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

FOOLS for luck
The construction is apparent from quot. 1834. FORTUNE favours fools expresses the same idea. Quot. 1981 appears to be a garbled version of this saying. Cf. 1631 JONSON Bartholomew Fair II. ii. Bring him a sixe penny bottle of Ale; they say, a fooles handsell [gift] is lucky.
□1834 Narrative of Life of David Crockett xiii. The old saying—’A fool for luck, and a poor man for children.’ 1854 J. B. JONES Life of Country Merchant xix. They attribute your good fortune to the old hackneyed adage, ‘A fool for luck’. 1907 D. H. LAWRENCE Phoenix II (1968) 6 ‘You’ll make our fortunes.’ ‘What!’ he exclaimed, ‘by making a fool of myself? They say fools for luck. What fools wise folks must be.’ 1981 T. BARLING Bikini Red North xi. All fools are lucky; isn’t that the adage? ■fools; luck
FOOLS rush in where angels fear to tread
□1711 POPE Essay on Criticism 1. 625 No Place so Sacred from such Fops is barr’d, Nor is Paul’s Church more safe than Paul’s Church-yard: Nay, fly to Altars; there they’ll talk you dead; For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. 1858 G. J. MCREE Iredell’s Life & Correspondence II. 277 Rash presumption illustrates the line, ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’. 1922 JOYCE Ulysses 649 Prying into his private affairs on the fools step in where angels principle. 1943 H. MCCLOY Do not Disturb ii. The folly of the officious is proverbial: don’t rush in where angels fear to tread. 1975 ‘C. AIRD’ Slight
Mourning xv. ‘The deceased was of—er—a forceful personality. Not over-sensitive, either, from all accounts.’ ‘Ah, I see. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’. "fools; ignorance
foot see it is not SPRING until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies; one WHITE foot, buy him; also FEET.