Best 316 quotes in «foolish quotes» category

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

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

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

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.

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

Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.

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!

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

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

But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

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?

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

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

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

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

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

Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff.

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

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

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

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

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

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

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

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

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

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

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

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.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

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!

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

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

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

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

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

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

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.