Foolish Quotes

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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally… — Victor Hugo
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in… — Philip Pullman
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. — William Makepeace Thackeray
People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lady Maccon stopped suddenly. Her husband got four long strides ahead before he realized she had paused. She was starring thoughtfully up into the aether,… — Gail Carriger
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask… — Jerome K. Jerome
And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks. Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first.… — Julia Quinn
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent,… — Og Mandino
Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said… — Megan Hart
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other,… — Bertrand Russell
It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish. — George R. R. Martin
Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be. — Paulo Coelho
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from. — Madeline Miller
In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences… — Libba Bray
I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not. — Rainbow Rowell
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking… — Terry Pratchett
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Well in case you failed to notice, In case you failed to see, This is my heart bleeding before you, This is me down on… — Jewel
I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to consider five things… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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