Foolish Quotes

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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right. — Heinrich Heine
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is no vestige of… — Charles Paul
Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about… — J. Neil Schulman
Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great. — Cher
I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going… — Madonna Ciccone
Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put… — Vivien Leigh
After Titanic it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've always loved England,… — Kate Winslet
I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me. — Djuna Barnes
Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve.… — Ayya Khema
I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too. — Gloria Swanson
Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target. — David Hackworth
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of… — Thomas Carlyle
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to… — Kinky Friedman
Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset. — John Spence
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou… — Walter Raleigh
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety. — Tryon Edwards
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle,… — Richard Bach

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