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Quotes About Foolishness

Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
Third basic law of human stupidity: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring loss.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
La Prima Legge Fondamentale della stupidità umana asserisce senza ambiguità di sorta che: Sempre ed inevitabilmente ognuno di noi sottovaluta il numero di individui stupidi in circolazione.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
Jotkut saavat perimässä poikkeuksellisen paljon typeryysgeenejä ja kuuluvat näin ollen syntymästään lähtien typerysten eliittiin.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.'fn1
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
A Primeira Lei Fundamental da Estupidez Humana afirma, sem ambiguidade, que «inevitavelmente, toda a gente subestima sempre o número de indivíduos estúpidos em circulação.»
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
Truly, the world was a comedy of errors, and she was the butt of the joke.
~ Carole Nelson Douglas
There's nothing more annoying than good advice from someone who makes a lot of bad decisions.
~ Caroline Kepnes
The line between stupid teenaged behavior that causes an end to teenaged lives and stupid teenaged behavior that turns into a prank is very thin. Kids
~ Carolyn McSparren
Why is it that STUPIDITY is not one of the Deadly Sins?
~ Carolyn Meyer
may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.
~ Carter G. Woodson
It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.
~ Carter Godwin Woodson
It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.
~ Cassandra Clare
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
~ George Jean Nathan
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
~ George Orwell
Courage and folly are cousins, or so I've heard.
~ George R.R. Martin
Sweet lady," said Florian, "all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.
~ George R.R. Martin
Serving men cleared away the swan, hardly touched. Cersei beckoned for the sweets. "I hope you like blackberry tarts." "I love all sorts of tarts." "Oh, I've know that for a long while. Do you know why Varys is so dangerous?" "Are we playing riddles now? No." "He doesn't have a cock." "Neither do you." And don't you just hate that, Cersei? ""Perhaps, I'm dangerous too. You, on the other hand, are as big a fool as every other man. That worm between your legs does half your thinking.
~ George R.R. Martin
Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.
~ George R.R. Martin
Jaime," she said, tugging on his ear, "sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna's breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there's some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak … but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you. I said so once to your father's face, and he would not speak to me for half a year. Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.
~ George R.R. Martin
Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.
~ George R.R. Martin
A veces, los más grandes estúpidos son más astutos que los que se ríen de ellos.
~ George R.R. Martin