Definition
To be tolerant of stupidity or incompetence in other people.
In Context
- "For ye ſuffre foles gladly be cauſe that ye youre ſelves are wyſe."
- "He [Henry Sweet] was, I believe, not in the least an illnatured man: very much the opposite, I should say; but he would not suffer fools gladly."
See Also
- nobody's fool