Foolish Quotes

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

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.

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately.

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

Looking foolish does the spirit good.

I'd be foolish not to take some of opportunities that are coming my way. We all know this can go away at any moment.

When we are foolish God intervenes.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.

There is nothing foolish about hope.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side, your shadow self, and you've now joined as one.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly.

To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special.