Foolish Quotes
1118 quotes by 815 authors
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... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.
— Darren Shan
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You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.
— Julie Garwood
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But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.
— Michelle Moran
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But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even…
— Mary Jo Putney
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I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did…
— Barbara Pym
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There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio…
— Neil Gaiman
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I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for…
— George R. R. Martin
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Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. “What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen? 
— Judith McNaught
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You could kill me, Alice, he looked at me seriously. That's how much you mean to me. As foolish and masochistic as that makes me,…
— Amanda Hocking
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Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more…
— Milan Kundera
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Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet…
— L. Frank Baum
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...the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.
— Piers Anthony
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There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion,…
— Philip Pullman
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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
— Hermann Hesse
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