Foolish quotes
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
-- Agnes Repplier -
It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
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?
-- Alison Uttley -
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
-- Andie MacDowell -
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It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.
-- Andrew Sarris -
Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.
-- Anne Desclos -
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
-- Anton Chekhov -
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
-- Ben Jonson -
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
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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.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
-- Black Elk -
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
-- Catullus -
It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.
-- Charley Reese -
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Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?
-- China Mieville -
Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.
-- Christian Lacroix -
The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.
-- Christine de Pizan -
Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.
-- Christine de Pizan -
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It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.
-- Christopher Paolini -
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!
-- Craig Reucassel -
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Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.
-- Cynthia Voigt -
We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
-- Daniel Ellsberg -
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
-- Danny Boyle -
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... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.
-- Darren Shan -
Power always impresses the young and foolish.
-- Darren Shan -
That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.
-- Dick Costolo -
I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.
-- Djuna Barnes -
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Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.
-- Duff Cooper -
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?
-- E. T. A. Hoffmann -
I may be getting old, but not foolish.
-- Elia Kazan -
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Go home and say to yourself, ‘I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!
-- Elizabeth Prentiss -
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.
-- Elon Musk -
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.
-- Emma Goldman -
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.
-- Euripides -
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
-- Frank Sinatra -
An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.
-- George Crabbe -
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The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
-- George Orwell -
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.
-- Heinrich Heine -
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
-- Hippocrates -
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Never let me hear that foolish word again.
-- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau -
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
-- Horace Walpole -
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
-- Iain Glen -
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
-- Iain Pears -
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
-- Isaac Asimov -
If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
-- Ivan Panin -
You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.
-- J. Vernon McGee -
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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?
-- James Elroy Flecker -
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
-- James Joyce -
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.
-- Jean Rhys -
I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.
-- Jim Parsons -
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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
-- Joel Salatin -
To say what your disguise is would be foolish.
-- John McAfee -
Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
-- John Spence -
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
-- John Wilmot -
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The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.
-- John Wolcot -
How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it
-- Judith McNaught -
We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?
-- Judith McNaught -
I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.
-- Kirk Cameron -
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Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.
-- Kristin Cashore -
If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.
-- Lee Tergesen -
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.
-- Louise Colet -
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Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
-- Madeline Miller -
Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.
-- Marie de France -
A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop.You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish....
-- Mario Andretti -
Faith is the willingness to look foolish.
-- Mark Batterson -
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I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
-- Mark McGwire -
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
-- Mark Twain -
The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.
-- Martin Wolf -
I study nature so as not to do foolish things.
-- Mary Ruefle -
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It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.
-- Masashi Kishimoto -
But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.
-- Michelle Moran -
But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?
-- Muhammad Asad -
Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.
-- Murasaki Shikibu -
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There is nothing foolish about hope.
-- N.K. Jemisin -
Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
-- Norm MacDonald -
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
-- Oswald Chambers -
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
-- Otto von Bismarck -
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He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.
-- Ovid -
It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.
-- Paul Eldridge -
Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.
-- Paul Vixie -
How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.
-- Philip K. Dick -
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
-- Piers Anthony -
Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.
-- Piers Anthony -
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
-- Publilius Syrus -
I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not.
-- Rainbow Rowell -
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We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.
-- Richard Kadrey -
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.
-- Robert Burns -
But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart
-- Robert Hunter -
