Foolish Quotes

1118 quotes by 815 authors

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things. — Janette Oke
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first… — Jane Austen
If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do… — Robert Fulghum
Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to,… — Albert Camus
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster… — John Steinbeck
I study nature so as not to do foolish things. — Mary Ruefle
Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves. — Terry Goodkind
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know… — Epictetus
And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw… — Shannon Hale
Right, and you point out something important which is that people who donâ€™t want to pay, people who are pirates, donâ€™t get bothered by the… — Cory Doctorow
Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving… — Julian Gough
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess. — Rajneesh
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his… — Walter de La Mare
Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places. — Curtis Sittenfeld
Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or… — Dalai Lama
Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she… — Elizabeth Strout
Itâ€™s foolish to fear what weâ€™ve yet to see and know. — Masashi Kishimoto
Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed. — Jean Rhys
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness… — Bertrand Russell

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