Foolish Quotes

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How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else... — Jodi Picoult
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no… — Roland Barthes
You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise. — Michael Ende
In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man,… — Elie Wiesel
So,â€ sneered Fudge, recovering himself, â€œyou intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?â€ â€œMerlinâ€™s beard, no,â€ said Dumbledore, smiling.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning. — Jane Austen
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads… — Heinrich Heine
Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people… — Elizabeth Strout
Wherever your heart rests There I will live and be blessed I've tried to line up the things I Needed to say but now my… — Walter Dean Myers
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as… — Walt Whitman
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! — Jane Austen
I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I… — Charles Bukowski
If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid. — Laurell K. Hamilton
I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune.… — Louisa May Alcott
There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could… — Kate DiCamillo
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of… — Dean Koontz
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and… — Blaise Pascal
And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart. — Fred Astaire
She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver… — Sabrina Jeffries

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