Foolish Quotes

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. — Seneca the Younger
If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for heaven. — Matt Chandler
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had… — Andie MacDowell
I started doing yoga in my 20s. I did teacher training, that was what I was going to do if acting didn't work out. I… — Kristin Davis
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher. — Mark Twain
At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd… — Norman Cousins
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest… — Horace
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people. — Michel de Montaigne
Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in… — Mark McKinnon
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in… — Nevil Shute
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great… — Arne Glimcher
My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and… — Jon Katz
We all do make foolish mistakes. — Susan Ford
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen… — Walter Kirn
In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love… — Sarah MacLean
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for… — Lemuel K. Washburn
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it? — Alec Guinness
It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. — Quintilian

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