Quotes About Foolishness

Doing the right thing for everyone eventually makes other people hate you. I want to be free to make a fool of myself.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

She found Safiye leaning against an oil lantern out in the garden and saw for herself that she wasn't the only foolish woman in the world, or even at that party, for Safiye had Lucy's highly polished bangle in her hand and was turning it this way and that in order to catch fireflies in the billowing, transparent left sleeve of her gown.

It would seem that God had merely asked me to give Him my mind, my training, the ability that He has given me; to serve Him unquestioningly; and to leave with Him the consequences....How wonderful God is, and how foolish we are to argue with Him and not to trust Him wholly in every situation as we seek to serve Him!

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything

Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can so easily make fools of us all.

La vida sin esperanzas es tremendamente difícil, pero con cuánta facilidad consigue la esperanza, en definitiva, volvernos necios a todos.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

This foolish smile he could not forgive himself.

Now they are playing." (He heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "It's all the same to them, but they will die too! Fools! I first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. And now they are merry... the beasts!

A causa della presunzione con la quale parlava nessuno comprese se ciò che aveva detto fosse molto intelligente oppure molto stupido.

You're fool enough at all times, and when you start explaining things in Italian you're a fool three times as foolish,

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Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.

We are concerned here with either real traitors or complete imbeciles. But imbecility, raised to this level, is equal to treason.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

you would only laugh at me, not because my thoughts were stupid, but because I was so foolish as to attempt to tell them to you. If

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.

I have two brothers, and we used to always laugh at oblivious people. People who are so cocky and full of themselves that they just don't realize how stupid they are. And those kind of idiots really make me laugh.