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Quotes About Foolishness

it's so easy to be a fool when one falls in love.
~ Gwen Bristow
Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.
~ Gwen Bristow
Spring!' thought Miss Maszkerádi. 'You are an idiot. I just don't believe you!
~ Gyula Krúdy
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
~ H. L. Mencken
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
~ H. L. Mencken
Well, I tell you, Son. I've had my share of fighting. It never proves anything. Anything can fight. Dogs, cats, skunks, and such things. But a man is supposed to be different. He's supposed to have some sense. I don't mind a good fight if there's something to fight for. I'd fight for you and your mother and our country, but I won't fight for foolishness
~ James H. Street
Why anyone should do so, knowing full well the dangers, was beyond the soldiers' comprehension, but they had learned from past experience never to underestimate the imbecility of certain individuals on occasions like these.
~ James Herbert
Every person is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Be wise today so you don't regret the choices you didn't make and regret the choices you were foolish enough to make.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
You will do foolish things in life. And more foolish not to take delight in it while you have it.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
We all do foolish things in life. But we would be more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
~ James Joyce
Most criminals are stupid. They creep $500,000 homes in the Garden District, load up two dozen bottles of gin, whiskey, vermouth, and Collins mix in a $2,000 Irish linen tablecloth and later drink the booze and throw the tablecloth away.
~ James Lee Burke
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~ James Patterson
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
~ Taylor Swift
It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.
~ Paul Eldridge
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
~ P. D. James
"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.
~ Amy Dickinson
There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
~ Thornton Wilder
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
~ Walter Raleigh
Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.
~ George Farquhar
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
~ Honore de Balzac
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.
~ Horace Walpole