Foolish Quotes

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And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly. — Sophocles
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my… — Louisa May Alcott
Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he… — Mark Twain
I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for… — Prince Charles
All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish. — Robert Plant
I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less,… — Vincent Van Gogh
I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break… — Maria McCann
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. — Adolf Hitler
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish. — Walter Savage Landor
An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a… — Glenn Ford
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable. — Chanakya
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to… — Helen Keller
Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is. — Nicolas Chamfort
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. — Igor Stravinsky
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the… — Black Elk
I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all. — Charles Lindbergh
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. — William Golding
We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were â€œfoolishâ€… — Oswald Chambers
How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves — Charles Spurgeon
Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or… — Michael Koryta

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