Foolish Quotes

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I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by… — Shirley Chisholm
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. — Isaac Asimov
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th'… — Finley Peter Dunne
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly… — Hannah Arendt
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase… — John von Neumann
O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good… — Walt Whitman
For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls. — Dan B. Allender
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin… — Willa Cather
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young… — Anne McCaffrey
Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think… — Akira Kurosawa
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love… — William Shakespeare
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. — Euripides
There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of… — Neal A. Maxwell
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but… — Chinua Achebe
I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for… — Danny Boyle
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty… — Chris Sligh
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. — Charles Caleb Colton
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. — Benjamin Franklin

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