Foolish Quotes

1118 quotes by 815 authors

She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward… — Steven Galloway
Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here. — Corrie Ten Boom
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as… — Anais Nin
It is foolish to conjure up woe where none exists. — Christopher Paolini
It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive,… — Ruth Graham
Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see… — Stephen King
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered--it… — Susan Vreeland
To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it. — Milan Kundera
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play… — Charles Bukowski
To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian. — Roseanne Barr
Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said.… — Christopher Paolini
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. — John Gardner
Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I. — Neil Gaiman
How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish. — Philip K. Dick
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any… — H. L. Mencken
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. — George Bernard Shaw
Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. — John Updike
You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am… — Kate Chopin
Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted… — John Updike

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