Foolish Quotes

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls.

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.