Foolishness Quotes

392 quotes by 315 authors

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life. — Anton Chekhov
Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather… — Melina Marchetta
All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered… — Paulo Coelho
The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me.… — R.L. LaFevers
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! — Robert Louis Stevenson
A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. — William Temple
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. — Winston Churchill
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense;… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. — John Dryden
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. — Horace
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest… — Horace
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity,… — Oriana Fallaci
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not… — Saint Bernard
Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression. — James E. Faust
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the… — Okky Madasari
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense. — Bernie Mac
A fool and his money are soon parted. — Thomas Tusser
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure… — May Sarton
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. — John McCarthy
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. — Sidney Hook

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