Foolish Quotes

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists.

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but Ill stop short of calling it foolish.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

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

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.

Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish.

We've been the foolish country for so long with this free trade, but it's not free trade because it's - you know, just doesn't work. I mean, it's not working. You look at the deficits we have.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.

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.

Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

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

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Power is very much like the wind. It comes and goes; no one really owns it. People are foolish enough to think they possess power. You don't possess power, power possesses you. Power uses you.

You are drained by foolish actions and others.

You can make all the changes to the island of the tonal you want, you can take excursions into the nagual, but to push yourself into the reordering process is absolutely foolish.

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

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

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

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

The least foolish is wise.

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]

Empty Chambers make foolish maides.

He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.

Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

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

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.

I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.