Foolish Things Quotes
36 quotes by 33 authors
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
— Jane Austen
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The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
— Gelett Burgess
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Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel…
— Alan Cohen
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For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults…
— Rajneesh
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If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the…
— Martin Luther
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
— John Maynard Keynes
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I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great…
— Alison Uttley
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A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.
— Marcel Proust
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Every Christian leader should have this engraved in his subconscious. No matter what you do, never take yourself too seriously God always chooses the foolish…
— K.P. Yohannan
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You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the…
— J. Vernon McGee
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I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of…
— Anton Chekhov
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Live as though you don't exist; like you are two eyeballs floating in space with nothing behind them. No brain attached. Not even hair -…
— Mooji
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.
— Jennifer Fallon
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Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.
— Janette Oke
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I study nature so as not to do foolish things.
— Mary Ruefle
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All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
— Rajneesh
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Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
— Jane Austen
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