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Quotes About Foolishly

The only saddnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I would burn my right hand in a slow fire To change the future . . . I should do foolishly. The beauty of modern Man is not in the persons but in the Disastrous rhythm, the heavy and mobile masses, the dance of the Dream-led masses down the dark mountain.
~ Robinson Jeffers
I don't see any humor in this," she snapped. Rurisk and I looked at one another and grinned foolishly. Smoke.
~ Robin Hobb
He identified many critics as competing refiners who had foolishly taken cash instead of Standard Oil stock for their plants.
~ Ron Chernow
It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
Who else would live in such an unguarded place except a woman for whom the forest was the world, he figured. And what a gentle child of that world she seemed. But oh so foolishly trusting. Way too trusting.
~ Anne Rice
You have made yourselves an interesting adversary to one who loves challenges, and it will require all of my considerable influence to protect you individually and collectively from the avid lust you have so foolishly aroused.
~ Anne Rice
You can't save time. You can only spend it, but you can spend it wisely or foolishly.
~ Benjamin Hoff
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
~ Albert Ellis
The world is also full of wonders, which is why I'm foolishly in love with it.
~ Ian Mcewan
Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.
~ George Raft
The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Happy are those who know how to obtain pleasures without injury to anyone; insane are those who fancy that the Almighty can enjoy the sufferings, the pains, the fasts and abstinences which they offer to Him as a sacrifice, and that His love is granted only to those who tax themselves so foolishly.
~ Giacomo Casanova
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
~ William Shakespeare
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.
~ Jane Austen
Troppo spesso succede che si distrugge la felicità preparandola, preparandola scioccamente!
~ Jane Austen
Cuán a menudo destruimos la felicidad preparándola, preparándola estúpidamente
~ Jane Austen
And then she hears the sound of a helicopter, from somewhere behind her and, turning, sees the long white beam of light sweeping the dead ground as it comes, like a lighthouse gone mad from loneliness, and searching that barren ground as foolishly, as randomly, as any grieving heart ever has.
~ William Gibson
The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
~ William Shakespeare
At least it taught me a simple lesson: if you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
~ Jeffrey Archer
I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.
~ Frank Black
God is the absolute sovereign Ruler of heaven and earth, and we are never to think of Him as wishing or striving to do what He knows He will not do. For Him to do otherwise would be for Him to act foolishly. Since
~ Loraine Boettner