Foolish Quotes

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To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me… — William Makepeace Thackeray
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the… — Henry Adams
I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if… — Colin Baker
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to… — Iain Pears
Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking… — Oprah Winfrey
Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it… — Criss Jami
Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether… — Criss Jami
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. — Criss Jami
Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have… — George Bernard Shaw
Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted… — August Strindberg
To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and… — James Anthony Froude
Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for… — James Anthony Froude
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness,… — John Dryden
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an… — Clarence Darrow
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence… — John Greenleaf Whittier
That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told… — Blaise Pascal
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving… — Rita Mae Brown
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. — Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill… — Anatole France

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