Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even… — Kelly Bishop Copy Share Image
I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history. — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and the children are thus led astray, for wisdom is not knowledge, it is a… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
We're living in a literary age, at least in America, that is marked by a sense of distance, a coolness, in all… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,'… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
“You are not doing something foolish, are you?" In fact, she was, but that didn't mean she had to stop glaring.” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
A cigarette doesn't have a soul to light her back..but I had the foolish soul to love her back — Shubham Joshi Copy Share Image
I never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“I will love to be called a foolish man of peace, than to be named a wise man of war. Show me… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Foolish is the mind of a man to make bogeys for itself and to live in terrors of fear for things which… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
When my world seems to crumble all around, and foolish people try to bring me down, I just think of your smile… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“It is foolish to hold tightly to material possessions. We do not own them, but they can own us.” — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty. — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one… — Alison Uttley Copy Share Image
“It’s the kind of love that doesn’t know better and doesn’t want to—it’s dizzy and foolish and fierce.” — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
