Best 316 quotes in «foolish quotes» category

Well.’ Maud handed me a bandage. 'That was the most foolish thing you’ve ever done.’ 'Don’t joke. We both know it isn’t.

We’ve searched all of the homes and carried the food to Ralph’s,” Sam continued. “The problem is that all the fruit and veggies spoiled while we were all filling up on chips and cookies. The meat all rotted. People were stupid and careless, and there’s nothing we can do about that now.” Sam swallowed the bitterness he felt, the anger he felt at his own foolishness. “But we have food sitting out in the fields. Maybe not the food we’d like, but enough to carry us for months—many months—if we bring it in before it rots and the birds eat it.” “Maybe we’ll get rescued, and we won’t have to worry,” another voice said. “Maybe we’ll learn to live on air,” Astrid muttered under her breath but loudly enough to be heard by at least a few. “Why don’t you go get our food back from Drake and the chuds up there?” It was Zil. He accepted a congratulatory slap on the back from a creepy kid named Antoine, part of Zil’s little posse. “Because it would mean getting some kids killed,” Sam said bluntly. “We’d be lucky to rescue any of the food, and we’d end up digging more graves in the plaza. And it wouldn’t solve our problem, anyway.

When enemies, the intellect and the heart only see one another as the hater and the fool.

Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it? ‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. xxvi. 4. ‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.’ Prov. xxvi. 5.

You're either very brave or very foolish." "The two aren't far apart, are they?

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them.

Would you care to dance?” he blurted. “Now?” She smiled adorably. “Is there music?” There wasn’t. It was some testament to how foolish in love he’d become that he did not even feel embarrassed.

You don’t understand!” she exclaimed bitterly. “That,” said his lordship, with a touch of acidity, “is a foolish accusation which lacks even the saving grace of originality! Every generation, my child, has said, or thought, that the preceding one was devoid of understanding or experience.

You know, in my opinion, being ridiculous is sometimes even a good thing, and better than that: we can forgive one another more quickly, and acquire humilty more quickly; after all, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin directly from perfection!

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

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