Foolish Quotes
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Tags: Often, Pleasure ✍ Author: Jane AustenEducation, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Tags: Education, Wise ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Tags: Minds, Statesmen ✍ Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Tags: Stupid, Thought ✍ Author: Nora EphronIf a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Tags: Million ✍ Author: Anatole FranceThe foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Tags: Act, Water ✍ Author: Lou HoltzTo decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
Tags: Become, Decide ✍ Author: Karl JaspersI'd be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.
Tags: Coming ✍ Author: Kim KardashianIt is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Tags: Leave, Passion ✍ Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Tags: Else, Lord ✍ Author: Martin LutherIf women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
Tags: Good, Women ✍ Author: H. L. MenckenI went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
Tags: Business, Rather ✍ Author: V. S. NaipaulThere is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Tags: Deeds, Memory ✍ Author: Gilbert ParkerThe argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Tags: Idea, Left ✍ Author: Carroll QuigleyThose who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Tags: Wise, Wish ✍ Author: Sean QuinnHow do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
Tags: Present, Wise ✍ Author: Lily RabeAs one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Tags: Older, Wiser ✍ Author: Francois de La RochefoucauldNothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Tags: Evil, Madness ✍ Author: Albert SchweitzerVisit partners pages
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
Tags: Expect, Failure ✍ Author: James TaylorEddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.
Tags: Funny, Guy ✍ Author: Lee TergesenIt is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
Tags: Arrogant, Audience ✍ Author: Twyla TharpSuperstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Tags: Childish, Cost ✍ Author: Judith ViorstPeople do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Tags: Actually, Wish ✍ Author: Alice WalkerLuck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Tags: Ignorant, Luck ✍ Author: Timothy ZahnIt would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
Tags: High, Worked ✍ Author: Paddy AshdownEven in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Tags: Beauty, Found ✍ Author: Charles BaudelaireTo punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
Tags: Him, Nature ✍ Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayThere are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Tags: Fools, Ideas ✍ Author: Nicolas ChamfortYou will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Tags: Enthusiasm ✍ Author: Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteSilence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Tags: Silence, Wise ✍ Author: Jessi ColterWe were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
Tags: Arrogant, Young ✍ Author: Daniel EllsbergIdealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Tags: Enough, Mankind ✍ Author: Emma GoldmanIdealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Tags: Enough, Mankind ✍ Author: Emma GoldmanWho is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Tags: Follows, Fool ✍ Author: Alec GuinnessThere is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
Tags: Mob, Useless ✍ Author: Keith HernandezWhere ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.
Tags: Bliss, Ignorance ✍ Author: Kin HubbardIt would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
Tags: Far, Progress ✍ Author: John Maynard KeynesNobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Tags: Nobody, Strong ✍ Author: Nellie MelbaAm I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
Tags: Cause, Great ✍ Author: Sun Myung MoonI have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.
Tags: Education, Interest ✍ Author: Philip PullmanIt is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
Tags: Damaging, Minister ✍ Author: Mary Lou RettonThis is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.
Tags: Ignorant, Water ✍ Author: Alexandra RipleyHe lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
Tags: Face, Lives ✍ Author: Randy SavageIt's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
Tags: Last, Popular ✍ Author: Dusty SpringfieldOne has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.
Tags: Good, Stupid ✍ Author: Picabo StreetTo contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
Tags: National, Seems ✍ Author: Gustav StresemannThe fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Tags: Making, Sound ✍ Author: Gloria SwansonEveryone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
Tags: Everyone, Wants ✍ Author: Gary WillsI think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
Tags: Irrational, Seriously ✍ Author: Jeanette WintersonMoney and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
Tags: Money, Wrong ✍ Author: Tiger Woods