Foolish Quotes

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

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

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

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

To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

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

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.