Foolish Quotes

1118 quotes by 815 authors

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. — Peter Ustinov
You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times,… — Johnny Vegas
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. — Alice Walker
I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his… — Julie Walters
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests… — George Washington
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. — Jeanette Winterson
Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish. — Tiger Woods
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall… — William Carlos Williams
Those who don't try never look foolish. — Stephen Schwartz
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. — Chuck Palahniuk
He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter… — Tad Williams
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noahâ€¦it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. — Rumi
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. — James Joyce
For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come. — George Bernard Shaw
The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It… — John Jakes
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own… — Neil Gaiman

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