Quotes About Foolishness

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.

He is as mad as a March hare.

Es obra de misericordia suprema despertar al dormido y sacudir al parado, y es obra de suprema piedad religiosa buscar la verdad en todo y descubrir dondequiera el dolo, la necedad y la inepcia.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

The fools here have pumpkins for heads, and seeds are not brains.

If you act like a fool and go against my interests, then I can't protect you

Ai fost un prost. Nu trebuia s-o visezi, trebuia s-o iubeÅŸti.

But your laziness leads you astray; your greed makes you dumb; your gluttony makes enemies for you.

i s njom nije bilo dosadno pijuckati burgundac, razgovarati o tome kako su ljudi glupi, slabi uglavnom, nesretni, slušati jesenji vjetar kako pla?e oko ku?e, plamen kako liže u pe?i, a Jadviga pri?a o ljubavi i o tome kako je ljubav najve?a laž me?u lažima. Jedan jedini put ljubila je u životu, a i to je bilo glupo.

Osovio se ?ovjek na stražnje noge, prohodao je kao dvonožac, a glupost se vu?e za njim kao sjenka!

Dao sam se zgaziti od glupana jer sam i sam glupan... Da se nisam dao zgaziti, nega da sam pravodobno gazio druge oko sebe, bio bih danas ugledno i poštovano gra?ansko lice!

That which is foolish is sometimes far stronger than that which is right, possessing an uncanny power to move men's hearts. And foolish ideas have always found easy purchase on small parts, hearts with holes, hearts like hollow, barren trees waiting to be filled.

Good sense avoids all extremes, and requires us to be soberly rational. This unbending and virtuous stiffness of ancient times shocks too much the ordinary customs of our own; it requires too great perfection from us mortals; we must yield to the times without being too stubborn; it is the height of folly to busy ourselves in correcting the world.

Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear foolish.

Trissottani: ma lo scemo ignorante è uno scemo più puro. Clitandro: lo scemo intellettuale è uno scemo due volte.

But how a man like you, who looks so wise And wears a moustache of such splendid size, Can be so foolish as to...

Kogu inimkond on nii vastik rämps ja park, et mind solvata võiks, kui näiksin neile tark.

Chanu spoke loudly, he weighed his words like gold and threw them about like a fool.

Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.

The one who acts without knowledge, destroys and ruins more than he rectifies.

Stupids only wear covid masks and force others also to do so to become fools like them.

Human stupidity is an endless stream of profit. Billions are earned from man's stupidity

The fear of death make people do all the stupid things in the world. You want protection from evil? But who will live forever?

I knew that before I asked . . . but part of me can't help hoping that maybe this time, he'll love me." "As I can't help hoping that my mother will rise, and will once again be the woman who sang me such lullabies that the world stood still." Pulling her into a crushing embrace, he pressed his lips to her temple. "We are both fools.