"Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune." — Murasaki Shikibu

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• 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… — Lucille Ball
• Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty… — 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… — Bill Bryson
• Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here… — Thomas Carlyle
• To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that… — 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… — 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

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