Quotes and Sayings About Foolish
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
... 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
