Quotes About Foolishness

If you don't have anything useful to offer, then get out of here and let us wait until hunger weakens Sonya." And by get out of here , I meant: foolishly think you're going to leave so that I can knock your heads together and drag you back to the guardians.

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.

There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of them in the whole world, and that's all there's ever going to be. Only a dummy would give this up for something as common money. Are you a dummy?

Poppyrot and pigwash!

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

I wouldn't want Larry to die through my oversight. Larry is entitled to work out his own damn foolishness without having it cut short through my carelessness. Duke, I believe in everyone's working out his own damnation his own way . . . but nevertheless that is no excuse for an adult to give a dynamite cap to a baby as a toy.

he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

intelligence" in the military meaning; a man in a suit can be just as stupid as anybody else—only he had better not be)

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." "There's

Any human organization can be rendered useless, impotent, a danger to itself, by selectively removing its best minds while carefully leaving the stupid ones in place.

beauty will lure a man into bed, but it won't bring him back a second time, unless he's awfully young or very stupid.

The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and

Stop it, you SILLY ass!

I'd appreciate it if you would just call me a goddamn son of a bitch, Louis said. A man too foolish for words. All right. You're a foolish son of a bitch. Thank you, he said.

Her ÅŸeye, devasa olas?l?k oranlar?na raÄŸmen, kontrol edemediÄŸin bir dünyan?n, kaybetmeyi kald?ramayaca??n tek ÅŸeyi elinden almayaca??na dair, son derece tekinsiz ve ak?l almaz aptall?kta bir inanç duymak.

I thought about all the times I had brought in black witches, pitying them for their foolishness, telling myself demons were dangerous, manipulating bastards who you couldn't beat. But I wasn't trying to beat them, I was trying to join them…apparently.

If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools..........

Å de hadde begge hat rædsel for følgerne, javel, og de hadde like så idelig fornyet rædslerne. Nei det var ikke sport og væddemål, det var murring i blodet, nødvendig dumhet og dårskap efter verdens ældste mønster, kanske også noget gyldent, kanske kjærlighet, de tkunde være så mange ting tilsammen.

God preserve me from growing wise! Yes, I intend to mumble toothlessly to my deathbed bystanders: God preserve me from growing wise!

Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, are puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.

All the same, said the Scarecrow, I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.