Quotes About Foolishness

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Now arrogance and error would reap the usual dividends

People, she believed, were for the large part leaping dumbasses.

Fucking family. Feeble and forlorn and floundering and foolish and frustrating and functional and sad, sad. Fucking family. Fiend or foe.

I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts.

You can't censor stupidity.

I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

Honestly I'm glad. Cases where stupid people do stupid things are really more my forte. Like this guy." He picked up a folder from the mess on his desk. "He updated his Facebook account from inside a house he was robbing. Classic Cliff McCormack material. I'll leave the murderers to someone who knows what he's doing.

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

Power without foresight leads to disaster.

es una vieja máxima de las escuelas / que la adulación es el alimento de los tontos».

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

THE BLIND HEN A hen who had lost her sight, and was accustomed to scratching up the earth in search of food, although blind, still continued to scratch away most diligently. Of what use was it to the industrious fool? Another sharp-sighted hen who spared her tender feet never moved from her side, and enjoyed, without scratching, the fruit of the other's labor. For as often as the blind hen scratched up a barley-corn, her watchful companion devoured it. FABLES, GOTTHOLD LESSING, 1729-1781

Pense nos idiotas da mesma forma que em crianças ou animais domésticos - não são suficientemente importantes para afectar o sue equilíbrio mental.

The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

Do not be led astray by a false sense of honor," said the Athenians. "Honor often brings men to ruin when they are faced with an obvious danger that somehow affects their pride.

A reasonable man in love may act like a madman, but he should not and cannot act like an idiot.

a man of great ambition and boundless stupidity, two qualities which in politics often go together.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

The more power a man held, the more likely he was to be an idiot with it.

A wise man tried to avoid battles he would not only lose, but look foolish losing.