Best 316 quotes in «foolish quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

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

If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market.

If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead of the care of persons, is foolish.

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

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

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

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

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.

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

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

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

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

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.

If you're given source material that's as special and well-written such as the new project from Robert Kirkman, you would be foolish not to want to do that and not to be faithful to that to some degree.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

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

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

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.

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

I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.

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

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

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

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

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

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 foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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