Foolish Quotes

It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.

Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

Only foolish people are completely secure.

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?

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.

A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

Im one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry arent behind us. Theyre actually ahead of us.

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.

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

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

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

When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile face, and I'm flying.

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

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.

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

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.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.