Quotes About Foolishness

Upon my word, thought Mrs Fisher, the way one pretty face can turn a delightful man into an idiot is past all patience.

It's awful, telling it like this, isn't it? As though we didn't know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It's like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, 'You stupid ass, just wait a minute,' and she'll open her eyes! 'Oi, you , you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don't die this time!' But they always do.

I hated him for not being depressed. He seemed a fool-- everyone who didn't feel like me was a fool. I alone knew the truth about life, knew that it was all a miserable downward spiral that you could either admit to or ignore, but sooner or later we were all going to die.

Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.

How honorable is knowledge, that the one who does not have it, says he does. How dishonorable is ignorance, that the one who has it says he does not.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth while the tongue of the wise man is in his heart

there are always four choices to every decision: the wise choice, the foolish choice, the safe choice and the choice that someone else makes for you.

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

It's the price you pay for being dumb enough to feel secure in your life.

For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?

Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar.

Noah is grinning at me, teasing, mocking just a little. He doesn't know that he should hate me. Fear me. Pity me. I should like him for that, but in the end I can't respect anyone who could be foolish enough to be sucked into all of my lies.

A man who works hard and uses his wealth to purchase jewelry to adorn himself, suits tailored in London, shoes handmade in Rome, and a hundred-thousand-dollar sportscar, which he drives cautiously and keeps in meticulous repair, will be viewed by everybody as a poor fool with a lot of pathetic needs.

Translation: I'm an idiot.

L'onore consiste il più delle volte nell'essere idioti

Hélas, on a l'âge de sa mémoire, n'est-ce pas? Et non de ses artères, comme disent les imbéciles.

Istnieje od bardzo dawna ogromna sekta idiotów, którzy przeciwstawiajÄ… zmysÅ'owo?? inteligencji. Powstaje bÅ'Ä™dne koÅ'o: odmawiajÄ… sobie rozkoszy, ?eby poprawi? swoje zdolnoÅ›ci intelektualne, co w efekcie prowadzi do ich zubo?enia. StajÄ… siÄ™ coraz gÅ'upsi, co z kolei utwierdza ich w przekonaniu, ?e sÄ… bÅ'yskotliwi - nic bowiem bardziej ni? gÅ'upota nie daje poczucia, ?e jest siÄ™ inteligentnym.

L'époque où nous vivons regorge de ces idiots intelligents dont la société fait regretter les braves imbéciles du temps jadis.

Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible restraint over common decency.

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.