Best 316 quotes in «foolish quotes» category

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

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.

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

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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 were not foolish young, were foolish old.

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.

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

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.

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

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 may be getting old, but not foolish.

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.

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

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

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 foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.

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