Foolish Quotes
1118 quotes by 815 authors
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Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the…
— Mira Nair
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Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry…
— Kevin O'Leary
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the…
— George Orwell
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If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.
— Leon Panetta
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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
— Gilbert Parker
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
— George S. Patton
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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a…
— Carroll Quigley
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
— Francois Rabelais
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how…
— Jim Rohn
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and…
— John Ruskin
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
— William Shakespeare
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Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
— Frank Sinatra
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking…
— Wallace Stevens
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To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
— Gustav Stresemann
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Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.
— Lee Tergesen
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
— Twyla Tharp
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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