Quotes About Foolishness

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

When ale is in, wit is out.

But probably 2,000 years hence many beliefs of the wise of our day will have come to seem equally foolish. Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

[I]s there anyone so foolish, even though he is young, as to feel absolutely sure that he will be alive when evening comes?

Despise school and remain a fool.

Before God we are relatively all equally wise — equally foolish.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things.

A cocktail or two, or several, I found, cheered me up for the foolishness of foolish people. A cocktail, or several, before dinner, enabled me to laugh whole-heartedly at things which had long since ceased being laughable. The cocktail was a prod, a spur, a kick, to my jaded mind and bored spirits.

Sabía que era inútil interponerse entre un necio y su necedad.

Sabía que era inútil interponerse entre un idiota y su locura; mientras que dos o tres idiotas menos no se echarían de menos en el mundo.

Feeling foolish, I scowled at her. "Does it amuse you to mock me, my lady?" "A little." Refreshed by sleep, her eyes sparkled unrepentantly. "You are so very serious, my shadow.

You were the most desirable woman I've ever seen, and I resented you for it. Foolish, but true.

It is a thing I have noted, that men will compete with one another even when there is no prize to be gained. Mayhap women are no better, on the whole, but we are more subtle about it, and quicker to reckon the stakes. And quicker to play men for fools.

Don't be idiots. For the love of Christ, don't be idiots.

Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.

The great man, the wise man does small things greatly regarding nothing as "trivial" that is necessary. The weak man, the foolish man, does small things carelessly, and meanly, hankering the while after, some greater work for which, in his neglect and inability in small matters, he is ceaselessly advertising his incapacity.

Man is always the master, even in his weakest and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.

Life is a series of lessons. Some are diligent in learning them, and they become pure, wise, and altogether happy. Others are negligent, and do not apply themselves. They remain impure, foolish, and unhappy.

Why should we fight them when their own greed and stupidity's destroying them. Eh?

It is bad manners to say that you will piss on anyone. Very bad. It is bad manners and very stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed. It is very bad manners and even more stupid to say that you will piss on anyone when you are unarmed, powerless, and not prepared to allow your friends and family or whomever to perish first.