Foolish Quotes

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If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the… — Stephen Fry
It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm a Democrat voting for Bush, even though on economic issues, from taxes to government regulation, I'm not happy with the Republican positions. But we're… — Orson Scott Card
Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored… — Ari Kiev
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely… — Moliere
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains… — William Shakespeare
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions — Baron de Montesquieu
It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner. — George Eliot
If others had not been foolish, we should be so. — William Blake
Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. — Thomas Carlyle
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish… — Romain Rolland
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients. — Hippocrates
When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to… — Louis L'Amour
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the… — James Russell Lowell
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support… — Desiderius Erasmus
You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his… — Unknown Author
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. — Unknown Author
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. — Unknown Author

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