Foolish Quotes

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

I look very foolish. To a lot of people I look foolish in what I'm doing and I understand that. The only thing that matters is how I feel and if I let how they feel affect me it'll change how I feel.

Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

I 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.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

We all do make foolish mistakes.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to drinking that clear cool glass of love.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

We don't charge people for making a mistake or doing something foolish.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.