Quotes About Foolishness

After the gravedigger's testimony had been heard, the judge spoke to Marcella. "Signorina," he said, "we are too busy here with serious matters to spend time on such foolishness. Take your skull, go home, and don't let us see you again.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Knowledge does not bring wisdom, especially when it is cheaply and easily come by. There was peace in the learning of the past, because men earned it slowly, absorbing it into the very stuff and pattern of their lives. Now any glib fellow can get a smattering of it, and be none the less a fool, only the more dangerous. For his object will be neither wisdom nor peace, but the vulgar determination to make good his own ends, at no matter whose expense.' The

You still eat away at me, more and more, insatiably. I'm stupid, I let you do it. But you're stupid, too. You don't realize that by eating me you're poisoning yourself,

So it goes when we need to couple. Sex makes idiots of us all. ~ From "Am I Pretty Enough

For there's nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he's clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.

We've all been there, done stupid things for love.

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

Well I am glad I have something of the fool in my disposition--foolishness being the only quality that makes wisdom possible.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

Freedom means the right to be stupid.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.