Foolishness Quotes
392 quotes by 310 authors
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
— Victor Hugo
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and…
— George Carlin
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All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know…
— Stephen Hunt
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
— Oscar Wilde
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Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.
— Janette Oke
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Remember that ofttimes the wisdom of God appears as foolishness to men, but the greatest single lesson we can learn in mortality is that when…
— Thomas S. Monson
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That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.
— Brandon Sanderson
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If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend…
— Khalil Gibran
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
— Alexandre Dumas
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He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
— Groucho Marx
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And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and…
— Sigrid Undset
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying…
— Bertrand Russell
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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been,…
— Cormac McCarthy
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But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life!…
— Milan Kundera
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...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
— G I Gurdjieff
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I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must…
— Kirsten Miller
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She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I have no time for babbling foolishness.†“Don’t be so hasty,†said Victor. “There’s always time for babbling.
— Eoin Colfer
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My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Who Wrote These Foolishness Quotes
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