Foolish Quotes · Page 39

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so…

— Richard Branson

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish…

— Kevin Costner

How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

— William Shakespeare

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

— Barry Goldwater

“How foolish was the fox. How blind. To not see, not value the friendship, the affection, the trust the brown bird offered…

— Julie Klassen

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

— Aristotle

To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in…

— Zhuge Liang

How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been…

— Steve Prefontaine

People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which…

— Van Jones

Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox Just how is it acquired? One must first go to the bad part of town Until one…

— Cassandra Clare

Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4).…

— Charles Hodge

Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as…

— Dalai Lama

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so…

— Tim Curry

I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish…

— Andie MacDowell

“I've been wondering," Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going…

— Erica Bauermeister

I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday.

— Stevie Wonder

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common…

— Susan Wiggs

A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop.You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish…

— Mario Andretti

“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Marjorie Bowen

“It will always take a good deal more courage to do something foolishly dangerous, when it is planned, than when it happens…

— Steven J. Carroll

“The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.”

— Isaac Asimov

If someone says " I love you " it would be foolish to say " I love you too " So you…

— Melissa de la Cruz

If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up…

— Rob Reiner

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

— Tori Amos

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

— Otto von Bismarck

“Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of awe and disbelief. "Ever.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd…

— Albert Camus

“And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

— Theophile Gautier

I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't…

— Melissa Rivers

“It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I…

— Vladimir Nabokov

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in…

— William Shakespeare

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

— Rumi

“their foolish insistence that any problem can be solved by the proper amount of applied group-think.”

— Seymour Rossel

“Words are foolish. Promises are useless. Anyone can say anything to get what it is they desire. Believe in actions and actions…

— Renee Ahdieh

“If you don't feel foolish the first time you try something new, you probably aren't doing it right.”

— Kara Timmins