Foolish Quotes
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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
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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.
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When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.
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Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money - or because the heart aches. L´amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?
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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.
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It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.
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Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them.
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The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.
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His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.
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And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
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He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.
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Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
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So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
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So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.
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Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.
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And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.
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Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
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Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
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Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
