Quotes About Foolishness

Voin vakuuttaa teille, ettei minua vaivaa mikään erityisesti. Olen jatkuvasti pahantuulinen (sekin on sairaus), koska kärsin typeryydestä ympärilläni ja olen tyytymätön itseeni.

No hay excusa para la maldad; pero el que es malo, si lo sabe, tiene algún mérito; el vicio más irreparable es el de hacer el mal por tontería.

Nuori tyttö, mörkö, hirviö, taiteen murhaaja. Nuori tyttö niin kuin hän todellisuudessa on. Pieni hölmö ja pikku paskiainen; kertakaikkisen typeryyden ja kertakaikkisen turmeltuneisuuden sekoitus. Nuoressa tytössä on kaikki sakilaisen ja koulupojan viheliäiset piirteet.

Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire…. Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

You can't overestimate the stupidity of the general public.

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.

El problema con el mundo es que la gente inteligente está llena de dudas, mientras que la gente estúpida está llena de certezas.

hell, I worked HARD all my life!" (they think this is a virtue, but it only proves a man is a damn fool.)

this then will be my destiny: scrabbling for pennies in dark tiny halls reading poems I have long since become tired of. and I used to think that men who drove buses or cleaned out latrines or murdered men in alleys were fools.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. -- Dünyan?n sorunu, ak?ll? insanlar ÅŸüphelerle doluyken, aptallar?n özgüvenle dolu olmas?d?r.

What foolishness makes us tweak the nose of Death continually?

ihminen voi olla vanha ja tyhmä ? monet ovat, ihminen voi olla nuori ja viisas ? harvat ovat.

Sólo un zoquete tiene bolsas llenas de consejos y respuestas a todas las preguntas.

Janeway Smithson had been on the job for twenty-five years and was dumb enough to be proud of it. He

ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:

Ignorance breeds confidence more often than knowledge

How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.

I venerate an honest obliquity of understanding. The more laughable blunders a man shall commit in your company, the more tests he giveth you, that he will not betray or overreach you. I love the safety, which a palpable hallucination warrants ; the security, which a word out of season ratifies. And take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his com position.

The idiot child they've placed on the throne does not impress with his acumen.

I love people who have such passion for complete nonsense.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

The fly that has no one to advise him follows the corpse into the ground.

In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow. If any money came his way, and it seldom did, he immediately bought gourds of palm-wine, called round his neighbors and made merry. He always said that whenever he saw a dead man's mouth he saw the folly of not eating what one had in one's lifetime. Unoka was, of course, a debtor, and he owed every neighbor some money, from a few cowries to quite substantial amounts.