Foolish Quotes

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

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.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

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

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

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.

His puppyhood was a period of foolish rebellion. He was always worsted, but he fought back because it was his nature to fight back. And he was unconquerable.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

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

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

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.

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

Those who don't try never look foolish.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.