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Quotes About Foolishness

Os maiores idiotas são por vezes mais espertos do que os homens que deles se riem
~ George R.R. Martin
fools believe in foolish things.
~ George R.R. Martin
Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
~ George Santayana
This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.
~ George V. Higgins
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
~ George Washington
A tudatlanság minden baj legkiválóbb ellenszere (…), a legtökéletesebb bolondok gy?zik le a legkönnyebben a problémákat, ?ket ugyanis nem gyötrik gondok, nem kínozza félelem és szorongás, mint a felvilágosult embereket.
~ Georges Minois
What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it. Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?
~ Gerald Durrell
Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.
~ Gerald Morris
Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
~ Napoleon
O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
~ William Shakespeare
Like lambs to the slaughter.
~ Jeremiah
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
~ Catullus
The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.
~ Jerome Tarshis
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.
~ Antoine de Rivarol
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
~ Horace Walpole
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
~ Bernard Barton
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
~ John Howe
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 foolishness.
~ May Sarton
A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
~ English proverb
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
~ H. G. Bohn
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.
~ Old saying