Foolish Quotes

The 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.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

The wise are wise only because they love.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.

It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

One of my foolish qualities is to jump boldly, and then think about it later.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

Forget Not: 1)to be patient with yourself. 2) the difference between good and foolish sacrifices. 3) to be happy NOW. 4) the 'why' of the gospel. 5) the Lord loves you.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.