Best 316 quotes in «foolish quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

Only foolish people are completely secure.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.

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

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

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

The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.

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

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

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.

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

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

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

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

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

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

Those who don't try never look foolish.

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