Quotes about Foolish

Stay hungry, stay foolish. Votes: 4

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Votes: 4

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Votes: 4

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. Votes: 4

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. Votes: 4

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Votes: 4

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. Votes: 3

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune. Votes: 3

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds! Votes: 3

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. Votes: 3

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places. Votes: 3

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you. Votes: 3

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. Votes: 3

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story. Votes: 3

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. Votes: 3

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed. Votes: 3

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All. Votes: 3

Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan. Votes: 3

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools. Votes: 3

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. Votes: 3

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it! Votes: 3

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue. Votes: 3

Dare to wear the foolish clown face. Votes: 2

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. Votes: 2

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. Votes: 2

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Votes: 2

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Votes: 2

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Votes: 2

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Votes: 2

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Votes: 2

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. Votes: 2

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Votes: 2

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. Votes: 2

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. Votes: 2

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Votes: 2

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Votes: 2

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. Votes: 2

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Votes: 2

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. Votes: 2

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? Votes: 2

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. Votes: 2

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. Votes: 2

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. Votes: 2

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. Votes: 2

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. Votes: 2

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. Votes: 2

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Votes: 2

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. Votes: 2

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. Votes: 2

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. Votes: 2

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. Votes: 2

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results. Votes: 2

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! Votes: 2

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Votes: 2

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch. Votes: 2

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.' Votes: 2

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. Votes: 2

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway. Votes: 2

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. Votes: 2

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you. Votes: 2

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain. Votes: 2

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' Votes: 2

The least foolish is wise. Votes: 0

I definitely have been foolish. Votes: 0

Empty Chambers make foolish maides. Votes: 0

We all do make foolish mistakes. Votes: 0

When we are foolish God intervenes. Votes: 0

There is nothing foolish about hope. Votes: 0

Looking foolish does the spirit good. Votes: 0

Only foolish people are completely secure. Votes: 0

Power always impresses the young and foolish. Votes: 0

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish. Votes: 0

Those who don't try never look foolish. Votes: 0

Faith is the willingness to look foolish. Votes: 0

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird Votes: 0

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit. Votes: 0

Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish. Votes: 0

You are drained by foolish actions and others. Votes: 0

Never let me hear that foolish word again. Votes: 0

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish. Votes: 0

You really are being quite foolish to smoke. Votes: 0

If were not foolish young, were foolish old. Votes: 0

Love is wise – Hatred is foolish. Votes: 0

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish. Votes: 0

I may be getting old, but not foolish. Votes: 0

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things. Votes: 0

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Votes: 0

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation. Votes: 0

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable. Votes: 0

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. Votes: 0

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Votes: 0

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things. Votes: 0

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do. Votes: 0

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish. Votes: 0

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not. Votes: 0

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme. Votes: 0

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild. Votes: 0

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish. Votes: 0

A foolish man... built his house upon the sand. Votes: 0

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. Votes: 0

To say what your disguise is would be foolish. Votes: 0

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid. Votes: 0

I study nature so as not to do foolish things. Votes: 0

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. Votes: 0

Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish. Votes: 0

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. Votes: 0

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Votes: 0

If others had not been foolish, we should be so. Votes: 0

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish. Votes: 0

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer Votes: 0

You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail. Votes: 0

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity. Votes: 0

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient. Votes: 0

Hiding things is the most foolish thing that annihilates correlation. Votes: 0

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish! Votes: 0

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Votes: 0

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions Votes: 0

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. Votes: 0

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. Votes: 0

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. Votes: 0

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes Votes: 0

It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists. Votes: 0

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. Votes: 0

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. Votes: 0

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way. Votes: 0

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart. Votes: 0

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question. Votes: 0

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. Votes: 0

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. Votes: 0

Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset. Votes: 0

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none. Votes: 0

It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons. Votes: 0

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. Votes: 0

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools. Votes: 0

It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know. Votes: 0

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people. Votes: 0

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then. Votes: 0

Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish. Votes: 0

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart Votes: 0

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish. Votes: 0

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor. Votes: 0

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom Votes: 0

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others. Votes: 0

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires. Votes: 0

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. Votes: 0

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. Votes: 0

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. Votes: 0

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. Votes: 0

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice. Votes: 0

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal. Votes: 0

He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one. Votes: 0

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust. Votes: 0

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. Votes: 0

A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible. Votes: 0

Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. Votes: 0

Wars of the foolish are destructive, wars of the wise bring transformation. Votes: 0

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard. Votes: 0

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands. Votes: 0

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. Votes: 0

The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives. Votes: 0

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons. Votes: 0

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions. Votes: 0

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one. Votes: 0

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. Votes: 0

For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls. Votes: 0

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. Votes: 0

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise. Votes: 0

If you don't risk doing something foolish, you'll never do anything special. Votes: 0

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher. Votes: 0

Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free. Votes: 0

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Votes: 0

Even the wise appear foolish before one who brings peace to another. Votes: 0

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last. Votes: 0

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done. Votes: 0

We don`t charge people for making a mistake or doing something foolish. Votes: 0

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times. Votes: 0

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then. Votes: 0

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured. Votes: 0

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. Votes: 0

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards. Votes: 0

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been. Votes: 0

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. Votes: 0

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. Votes: 0

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself. Votes: 0

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one. Votes: 0

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't. Votes: 0

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. Votes: 0

He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment. Votes: 0

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right. Votes: 0

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. Votes: 0

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things. Votes: 0

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. Votes: 0

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. Votes: 0

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish. Votes: 0

You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish. Votes: 0

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me. Votes: 0

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish. Votes: 0

The foolish big boys who fight with their toys are so sadly silly. Votes: 0

To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish. Votes: 0

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. Votes: 0

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true. Votes: 0

...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish. Votes: 0

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. Votes: 0

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves. Votes: 0

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. Votes: 0

It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman. Votes: 0

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things. Votes: 0

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence. Votes: 0

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally. Votes: 0

Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great. Votes: 0

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. Votes: 0

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas. Votes: 0

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. Votes: 0

Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results. Votes: 0

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial. Votes: 0

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. Votes: 0

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. Votes: 0

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master. Votes: 0

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one. Votes: 0

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. Votes: 0

We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace? Votes: 0

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. Votes: 0

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness. Votes: 0

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish. Votes: 0

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible. Votes: 0

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. Votes: 0

It's foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya. Votes: 0

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish. Votes: 0

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely. Votes: 0

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. Votes: 0

There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est Votes: 0

I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not. Votes: 0

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free. Votes: 0

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. Votes: 0

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. Votes: 0

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. Votes: 0

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish! Votes: 0

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles. Votes: 0

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. Votes: 0

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. Votes: 0

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Votes: 0

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance. Votes: 0

I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. Votes: 0

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose. Votes: 0

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart. Votes: 0

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time. Votes: 0

A wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody. Votes: 0

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces. Votes: 0

It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men. Votes: 0

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. Votes: 0

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. Votes: 0

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. Votes: 0

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. Votes: 0

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. Votes: 0

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions. Votes: 0

It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you. Votes: 0

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest. Votes: 0

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool. Votes: 0

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. Votes: 0

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. Votes: 0

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it Votes: 0

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish. Votes: 0

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience. Votes: 0

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. Votes: 0

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you. Votes: 0

How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. Votes: 0

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target. Votes: 0

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed. Votes: 0

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish. Votes: 0

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. Votes: 0

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. Votes: 0

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him Votes: 0

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles. Votes: 0

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid. Votes: 0

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof. Votes: 0

That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish. Votes: 0

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish. Votes: 0

The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be. Votes: 0

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. Votes: 0

Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday. Votes: 0

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish. Votes: 0

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead. Votes: 0

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here. Votes: 0

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons. Votes: 0

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888). Votes: 0

Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic. Votes: 0

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Votes: 0

Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack. His heart isn't nearly foolish enough to attack him. Votes: 0

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. Votes: 0

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. Votes: 0

We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish. Votes: 0

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish! Votes: 0

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish! Votes: 0

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah"¦it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. Votes: 0

What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid. Votes: 0

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason. Votes: 0

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. Votes: 0

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Votes: 0

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone. Votes: 0

Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful. Votes: 0

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else... Votes: 0

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish. Votes: 0

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman. Votes: 0

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever Votes: 0

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish. Votes: 0

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example. Votes: 0

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid. Votes: 0

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish. Votes: 0

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. Votes: 0

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes Votes: 0

It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend. Votes: 0

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion! Votes: 0

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. Votes: 0

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream. Votes: 0

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing. Votes: 0

He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways. Votes: 0

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. Votes: 0

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. Votes: 0

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is. Votes: 0

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us. Votes: 0

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things. Votes: 0

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache. Votes: 0

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct. Votes: 0

He promised he'd never leave me. That we'd be friends forever." "He was foolish to promise such things, Votes: 0

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. Votes: 0

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. Votes: 0

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. Votes: 0

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! Votes: 0

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. Votes: 0

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. Votes: 0

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish. Votes: 0

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain. Votes: 0

I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it. Votes: 0

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. Votes: 0

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question. Votes: 0

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant. Votes: 0

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere. Votes: 0

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. Votes: 0

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. Votes: 0

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Votes: 0

If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven. Votes: 0

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. Votes: 0

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. Votes: 0

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. Votes: 0

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing. Votes: 0

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. Votes: 0

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? Votes: 0

We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit. Votes: 0

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. Votes: 0

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. Votes: 0

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do. Votes: 0

When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime. Votes: 0

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Do you know a good Steve Jobs quote? Let us know in the comments! Votes: 0

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne) Votes: 0

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. Votes: 0

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Votes: 0

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself. Votes: 0

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. Votes: 0

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. Votes: 0

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while. Votes: 0

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics. Votes: 0

A goal isn't something you just arrive at and stop.You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish.... Votes: 0

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. Votes: 0

If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter. Votes: 0

How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations. Votes: 0

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. Votes: 0

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind. Votes: 0

So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst. Votes: 0

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight. Votes: 0

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be Votes: 0

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too. Votes: 0

I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind. Votes: 0

Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed. Votes: 0

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. Votes: 0

I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness. Votes: 0

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life. Votes: 0

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left. Votes: 0

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all. Votes: 0

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines. Votes: 0

I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there. Votes: 0

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves. Votes: 0

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. Votes: 0

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish. Votes: 0

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish. Votes: 0

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. Votes: 0

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending. Votes: 0

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land. Votes: 0

Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don't think that sex is my Muse. Votes: 0

Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. Votes: 0

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants. Votes: 0

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be. Votes: 0

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool. Votes: 0

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties. Votes: 0

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty. Votes: 0

Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true. Votes: 0

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. Votes: 0

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema. Votes: 0

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema. Votes: 0

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. Votes: 0

People do not wish to appear foolish to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools Votes: 0

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men Votes: 0

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. Votes: 0

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly. Votes: 0

The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act. Votes: 0

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me. Votes: 0

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. Votes: 0

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived. Votes: 0

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens. Votes: 0

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise. Votes: 0

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had Votes: 0

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna. Votes: 0

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history. Votes: 0

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. Votes: 0

It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence. Votes: 0

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. Votes: 0

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.] Votes: 0

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. Votes: 0

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning. Votes: 0

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. Votes: 0

I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog. Votes: 0

As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish. Votes: 0

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience? Votes: 0

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone. Votes: 0

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. Votes: 0

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace. Votes: 0

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian. Votes: 0

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in. Votes: 0

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety. Votes: 0

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves Votes: 0

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. Votes: 0

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme. Votes: 0

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish. Votes: 0

May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant Votes: 0

How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod. Votes: 0

Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind. Votes: 0

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones. Votes: 0

The most foolish description of the young is that they are rebellious. The truth is that they are a fellowship of cowards. Votes: 0

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish. Votes: 0

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile. Votes: 0

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise. Votes: 0

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever. Votes: 0

No one single person is going to make each other happy, and it's foolish to expect the other person to do that. Votes: 0

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living. Votes: 0

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true. Votes: 0

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.] Votes: 0

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. Votes: 0

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Votes: 0

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living. Votes: 0

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. Votes: 0

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. Votes: 0

We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell. Votes: 0

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow. Votes: 0

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. Votes: 0

I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more. Votes: 0

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past "“ never forget. Votes: 0

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? Votes: 0

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. Votes: 0

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job. Votes: 0

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I. Votes: 0

Im one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry arent behind us. Theyre actually ahead of us. Votes: 0

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now. Votes: 0

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. Votes: 0

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier. Votes: 0

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. Votes: 0

You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else. Votes: 0

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. Votes: 0

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. Votes: 0

I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us. Votes: 0

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing. Votes: 0

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again. Votes: 0

God bless our good and gracious King,Whose promise none relies on;Who never said a foolish thing,Nor ever did a wise one. Votes: 0

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right. Votes: 0

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come. Votes: 0

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV. Votes: 0

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them. Votes: 0

The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance. Votes: 0

If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever. Votes: 0

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel. Votes: 0

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous. Votes: 0

Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question. Votes: 0

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness. Votes: 0

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. Votes: 0

I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish. Votes: 0

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me. Votes: 0

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Votes: 0

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up. Votes: 0

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish. Votes: 0

If someone says " I love you " it would be foolish to say " I love you too " So you say " I knoe " tht is trulie wht love is. <3 Votes: 0

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around. Votes: 0

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0