[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
There are so many political talk shows out there that are doing such a good job that it would be foolish of… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna. — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions. — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
“Who understands war: the solders? the homeless ones? Mussolini? Or the leaders of the English and the Americans? No, nobody understands war,… — Erik Christian Haugaard Copy Share Image
Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Even when we're with someone we love, we're foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's foolish how we forgive someone just because we don't want to lose that person, even when they don't deserve it. — Lucas Hunter Copy Share Image
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that just a little bit of age can make a man far… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
If you are 50 for 5 and you go out and get out while trying to hit a six and then say… — Hardik Pandya Copy Share Image
To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in… — ElRay L. Christiansen Copy Share Image
A wise man builds a relationship with love and respect. A foolish man tears it down with his words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to… — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them,… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“ Foolish heart , I thought. I don't have time for you. But my heart, being foolish, did not listen.” — Devon Monk Copy Share Image