Foolishness Quotes

392 quotes by 310 authors

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. — Victor Hugo
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
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
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. — Oscar Wilde
Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things. — Janette Oke
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
That isnâ€™t greatness. Thatâ€™s just foolishness. — Brandon Sanderson
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
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
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
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
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
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
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
...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
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. — G I Gurdjieff
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
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
I have no time for babbling foolishness.â€ â€œDonâ€™t be so hasty,â€ said Victor. â€œThereâ€™s always time for babbling. — Eoin Colfer
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

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