Quotes About Foolishness

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang (He who loves not Wine, Women and Song Remains a fool his whole life long)

With such and the like fopperies were petty brains troubled.

Take the talents of wisdom and integrity. Without Christ, wisdom is double foolishness and integrity double sin, because they not only fail to perceive the wisdom and righteousness of Christ, but hinder and blaspheme the salvation of Christ.

We are old fools. The more educated and intelligent we become, the less we know and understand.

They turn the heart away much more strongly than adversity and want do, as he says in his song (Deut. 32:15): "Having become swollen, fat, and thick, he rebelled"; and (Prov. 1:32): "The prosperity of the foolish destroys them"; as is said also in the German proverb: "You need strong legs to hold up under good days." For man endures evil more easily than good, as the poet says: "Luxury has invaded as a deadlier foe."2

RaÅ£iunea este cea mai mare târf? a Diavolului; din fire ÅŸi prin felul de a fi, este o târf? d?un?toare; este o prostituat?, târfa desemnat? a Diavolului; târf? mâncat? de râie ÅŸi lepr?, care ar trebui c?lcat? în picioare ÅŸi distrus?, ea ÅŸi înÅ£elepciunea ei… Ar merita s? fie aruncat? în cel mai murdar loc al casei, în toalet?.

This is enormous folly, and ignorance of Christian life and faith, when a man seeks, without faith, to be justified and saved by works.

CreÅŸtinii au mare noroc c? sînt de foarte tineri puÅŸi în gard? împotriva riscului inteligenÅ£ei; ei vor ÅŸti, toat? viaÅ£a, s? se fereasc? de ea. FericiÅ£i cei s?raci cu duhul.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones?

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him

O innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse.

The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

I'd like to go down and arrest them just for being this stupid." There oughta be a law, no doubt about

Oh no, no," said the little fly; "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again.

ignorance is like a cow that a lot of people can't stop milkin!