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  Foolish people are often reckless, attempting feats that the wise avoid. This saying is from “An Essay on Criticism,” by Alexander Pope.
• fools rush in where angels fear to tread
  fools rush in where angels fear to tread

  Ignorant or inexperienced individuals get involved in situations that wiser persons would avoid, as in I've never heard this symphony and here I am conducting it—oh well, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, or He tried to mediate their unending argument—fools rush in. This expression, so well known it is sometimes shortened as in the second example, is a quotation from Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism (1709): “No place so sacred from such fops is barr'd ... Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

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1. Foolish people are often reckless, attempting feats that the wise avoid. This saying is from “An Essay on Criticism,” by Alexander Pope.

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fools rush in where angels fear to tread Idioms  

1. Ignorant or inexperienced individuals get involved in situations that wiser persons would avoid, as in I've never heard this symphony and here I am conducting it—oh well, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, or He tried to mediate their unending argument—fools rush in. This expression, so well known it is sometimes shortened as in the second example, is a quotation from Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism (1709): “No place so sacred from such fops is barr'd ... Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

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From Time Magazine Archive

Understanding of Mickey came in rivers swift and strong, so while he wondered and while he watched entranced, over and over in his head went the line: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter

As it is said, Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

From Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

Thus once again was illustrated the truth of the old saying that "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Margaret Bruce Clarke

The over-reckless should restrain himself by remembering that "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various

There are daring and gaudy buildings that manage to be offensive, without being contemptible; and we know that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

The poem abounds in such lines as these:— "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

Indeed, such efforts deserve rather the name of conjuring than of experiment; but in this, as in many other matters of life, it is true that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

Now, if fools rush in where angels fear to tread, surely they often rush to their undoing.

From At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

We get some of our best results from letting fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

From My Life and Work by Henry Ford

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