# Earliest use of 'The fools. . . I'll show them ALL'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-use-of-the-fools-ill-show-them-all/571710>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 17, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-use-of-the-fools-ill-show-them-all/571710 "2011-02-17T16:20:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-use-of-the-fools-ill-show-them-all/571710/21 "2011-02-19T21:17:49Z")

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In a similar vein:

“Crazy am I? We’ll see whether I’m crazy or not!”

Dr. Henry [Frankenstein](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021884/quotes) (1931)

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-use-of-the-fools-ill-show-them-all/571710/22 "2011-02-19T22:08:32Z")

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> [@Spoke](#):
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> In a similar vein:
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> “Crazy am I? We’ll see whether I’m crazy or not!”
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> Dr. Henry [Frankenstein](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021884/quotes) (1931)

Yeah, there were several quotes by him like that, but not as close to the OP as I thought.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-use-of-the-fools-ill-show-them-all/571710/23 "2011-02-19T22:38:15Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> I thought it was in the bible. Doesn’t king Herod say something similar while murdering first born sons under the age of two in his hunt for the baby Jesus?

Perhaps in a movie, but not in the Bible itself.

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**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-use-of-the-fools-ill-show-them-all/571710/24 "2011-02-20T07:06:30Z")

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> [@Johnny\_Q](#):
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> “Laugh if you must, but remember, they laughed at Einstein. They Laughed at Newton. Tey laughed at the Three Stooges!!”

“They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round.”

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