Quotes About Foolishness

And every day past is just another step for fools on the way to their deaths.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready, with every nod, to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

?ycie jest jedynie przelotnym cieniem; ?a?osnym aktorem, co przez godzin? puszy si? i miota na scenie, po czym znika; opowie?ci? idioty, pe?n? wrzasku i w?ciek?o?ci, a nie znacz?c? nic.

There was an old saying about how God helped those who helped themselves. Preacher would have added that God watched over those who weren't damn fools to start with.

Para crear las condiciones desfavorables para sí misma, en las que Alemania produjo la guerra, eran, sin embargo, todavía necesarios muchos actos de absoluta imprudencia por parte de sus gobernantes.

Già splende il bosco nelle Ardenne. Non avvicinarti a me. Sciocca, sciocca, ho praticato il mondo.

I disagreed. I disagreed with the unquestioning confidence of the truly ignorant

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

If you're scared, you should've stayed at home," Byram said. "If you're not scared, you're stupid.

La persona della quale parlerò e così sciocca che, a volte, per strada, sorridere gli altri. Nessuno le ricambia il sorriso neppure la vedono.

Elena no siente orgullo, siente otra cosa, tampoco pena, ni bronca, siente un sentimiento que no sabe qué nombre tiene, eso que uno siente cuando se descubre tonto.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

Sin duda los imbéciles pasan por ser dichosos. Pero la ignorancia no podía combatir el mal, sino sólo ignorarlo.

Hier en daar een antenne knakken, een achteruitkijkspiegel afbreken, een deuk stompen, een kras maken? (...) Als zoiets je enige vorm van voldoening geeft, ben je een stompzinnige idioot.

Some people are stupid but they know it and can deal with it. They are the smart stupid people. The stupid stupid people are those who are so stupid that they think they're smart. Holdoffer not only fell into that category, he owned it.

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

Perhaps it is Oak who is the fool, who caught a wolf and thought that by putting it in a gown and speaking to it as though it were a girl, it would become one.

Yesterday when we went over the plan again and again, I never thought about Grandad showing up. Because I'm an idiot, basically--an idiot with poor planning skills. Of course he's here. Where else would he be? Seriously, what else could go wrong?

Wisdom is for the meek," he returns. "And it seldom helps them as much as they believe it will. After all, as wise as you are, you still married Locke. Of course, perhaps you are wiser than even that—perhaps you're so wise you made yourself a widow, too.

I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

Only idiots aren't scared of things that are scary