Quotes About Foolishness

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Great men are not always wise.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

Adventure is what happens when you just did something stupid.

There are so goddamn many ways to be a fool a man can't expect to avoid them all.

Nikad ne možeš biti toliko glup, koliko ja mogu da budem gluv. Nikad ne možeš da budeš tako alav, koliko ja mogu da ti dam. Nikad ne možeš toliko da srušiš, koliko ja mogu iznova da sagradim. I nikad, ali, ama baš nikad, ne možeš da budeš toliko zao, koliko ja mogu da budem dobar.

No? i rakija i plitka pamet nemaju mjere.

People, she thought, could be unbelievably stupid.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

If you've bullshitted me, angel, I'm going to kill you." The other male rolled his eyes. "I'm already dead, idiot.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, she added, because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Only a silly sober fool could think it; imagine gloating over such nonsense (because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was the pathway to wisdom lies through excess)

Not only was there no traffic but the rain came down in buckets and I had no shelter. I had to run under some pines to take cover; this did no good; I began crying and swearing and socking myself on the head for being such a damn fool.

Don't be a sucker all your life, dummy up, ya dope.

I could write a book - if I could write, ha ha - about how many times I've been ripped off lending money to people. I'm an absolutely unbelievable soft touch. Unbelievable. I never learn my lesson.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man!

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.