Quotes About Foolishness

I knew what he was, I try to tell myself. I saw the blood crusted on his red cap. If I let myself forget, then more fool me

I keep my head down, as I probably should have done in the first place. And if I curse Cardan, then I have to curse myself, too, for being the fool who walked right into the trap he set for me.

Los idiotas son los únicos que no se asustan de las cosas que dan miedo.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

A man who prides himself on going in a straight line through life is an idiot who believes in infallibility.

Seguimos viendo, y quizá tememos a quienes están al tanto del daño que nos hacen, mientras que el que hiere ignorando la profundidad de su herida es tenido como un tonto, por un zote que no sabe sacar partido de nada y todo el mundo le desprecia.

Good sense from a child was not necessarily contemptible beside foolishness from a grown-up.

I can hardly bear to think of ourselves hugging and crying and making giggly phone calls, like we were in some inane sitcom. We actually discussed names. Names! I want to shout back through the years at myself, "Just because you're pregnant doesn't mean you get a baby, you idiots!

there was fashion and there was idiocy, and while she was vain enough to love the former, she was not willing to indulge the latter.

I know you are drunk on youth and immortality, but this is how you die

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

Speran?a este un sfetnic prost.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

One who cannot live in harmony with others is regarded as an ignorant fool, even if he happens to be very learned in various matters.

Il faut un double soleil pour éclairer le fond de la bêtise humaine.

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

She really did like me, the idiot.

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

Human nature is an odd thing, is it not?" he asked softly. "Always tempting man to his demise.

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

If you ask me, I call the whole thing bally foolishness.

Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose.