Foolish Quotes

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ART Art is that thing having to do only with itselfâ€”the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne) — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make… — Jean Cocteau
Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing… — Stephen Schwartz
Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half… — William Saroyan
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be… — Anne Bronte
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit… — George MacDonald
...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but… — E. Nesbit
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are… — William Butler Yeats
Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith,… — R.J. Ellory
Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better â€” best of all, ourselves better. This… — Neil Postman
In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes — Robert Jordan
It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past â€“ never forget. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so… — Joseph Heller
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's… — Charles Bukowski
Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons. — Jennifer Fallon
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. — Alexandre Dumas
Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color.… — Eduardo Galeano
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I loathe the expression â€œWhat makes him tick.â€ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A… — James Thurber

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