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Foolish Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the…
- Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight…
- If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
More Foolish Quotes
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
- I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business,… — Lucille Ball
- Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always… — Charles Baudelaire
- Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. — Ambrose Bierce
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. — Aeschylus
- Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from… — Bill Bryson
- Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment… — Thomas Carlyle
- To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only… — Thomas Carlyle
- Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great. — Cher
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero