Best 316 quotes in «foolish quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

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.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

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

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

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

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

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

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

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

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

My personal analysis is that, if you are concerned about U.S. foreign policy and getting into foolish wars, then Hillary Clinton is not your woman. On the other hand, I mean neither is Donald Trump.

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

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

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

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

My rule is when in doubt hire a professional. You could do it just this year and then you have direction to resume doing it yourself after the consultation. What you don't want is to do it wrong and be hit by a huge tax bill. Remember the old saying, "Don't be pennywise and pound foolish.

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

Only foolish people are completely secure.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

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.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

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

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

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

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

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

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

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

So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said "African" instead of "Nubian" or "Black" or "Kemet" or "original" or "Israelite," don't be so foolish. I say "African" because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.

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