Foolish Quotes

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to… — Lucille Ball
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. — Charles Baudelaire
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. — Ambrose Bierce
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. — Aeschylus
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.… — Bill Bryson
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil… — Thomas Carlyle
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a… — Thomas Carlyle
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. — Cher
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… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. — Tori Amos
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. — Margaret Truman Daniel
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… — Kirk Cameron
What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid. — Robert Ringer
There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. — Thomas Hobbes
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is… — Oswald Chambers

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