Fools Rush In.. Where Angels fear to tread..

Being a cynic & a critic, I was always fascinated with this phrase.. and it was part of a romantic song by Bryan Adams as well, one of my favorite songs infact. Whenever I would see people blindly running in a rat race, doing things because everybody else was doing those and making foolish mistakes I would just go back to this phrase and wondered at times how this originated.. Here's the Story (And I have attached the link, for more inquisitive minds):

Meaning : The rash or inexperienced will attempt things that wiser people are more cautious of.

Origin

'Fool' is now a more derogatory insult than it was when this proverb was coined, in the early 18th century. At that time a fool wasn't a simpleton, lacking in intelligence, simply someone who had behaved foolishly.

Fools rush in'Fools rush in...' has a precise derivation, in that it is a quotation from the English poet Alexander Pope's An essay on criticism, 1709(Quoting only the relevant para):

...." 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."

The 'fools' that Pope targetted there were the literary critics of the day.

The line has been taken up by a string of notable writers since:

- Thomas Hardy, in The Woodlanders, 1887:

"He felt shy of entering Grace's presence as her reconstituted lover - before definite information as to her future state was forthcoming; it seemed too nearly like the act of those who rush in where angels fear to tread."