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Quotes About Foolishness

Ja no kaut k? atsak?s, tad to vairs nepazaud?s, - Georgs saka. - Tikai idioti t? r?kojas.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Elus võidab ainutl loll; tark näeb liiga palju takistusi ja muutub ebakindlaks.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I know you're right. I'm just low, and when I'm low I talk like a fool.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Coward," Pablo said bitterly. "You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish." "Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly," said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase.
~ Ernest Hemingway
De az okos embernek néha be kell rúgnia, hogy kibírja a bolondok között.
~ Ernest Hemingway
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
~ Ernest Hemingway
No seas idiota —dijo en voz alta—. Y no te duermas. Gobierna tu bote.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It's not cowardly to know what is foolish. -Neither is foolish to know what is cowardly.
~ Ernest Hemingway
No," Pablo said, dipping up another cup. "I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
~ Ernest Hemingway
En esta guerra se hacen muchas tonterías —dijo Agustín—. En esta guerra la idiotez no tiene límites.
~ Ernest Hemingway
No es cobardía saber lo que es insensato. —Ni es insensato saber lo que es cobardía —dijo Anselmo, incapaz de resistir la tentación de hacer una frase.
~ Ernest Hemingway
De todas las formas en que uno puede ser herido, la mía era la más ridícula.
~ Ernest Hemingway
AÈ™ vrea s? fiu mai bine un n?tâng, decât un înÈ›elept vestind nenorociri. S? se petreac? toate minunat chiar împotriva minÈ›ii mele!
~ Eschil
Giova sembrare stolti senza esserlo
~ Eschilo
How little common sense this man (Clay) displays…Oh, that mine enemy would write a book!... Silence would have been to him wisdom.
~ Andrew Jackson
Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.
~ Andrew Mercer
There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there, where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
To me, Madam Yennefer, wisdom includes the ability to turn a deaf ear to foolish or insincere advice.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Some have brains, so they get a book! Others are feather-brained, so they get a broom!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
L'intolleranza e la superstizione sono sempre state prerogativa della parte più stupida del volgo e credo che non saranno mai estirpate, perché sono eterne quanto la stupidità stessa. Là dove oggi torreggiano le montagne un giorno ci saranno i mari, là dove oggi si agitano i mari un giorno ci sarà il deserto. Ma la stupidità rimarrà stupidità.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Ambition is the undoing of men. They always want what they know to be impossible and unattainable. And they are unaware of the attainable.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Nie jesteÅ›, cho? lubisz mniema? inaczej, specjalnie mÄ…dry. Ale na to, by spróbowa? mnie powstrzyma?, jesteÅ› za mÄ…dry.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Entre los príncipes, especialmente entre los más jóvenes, aquéllos que no tenían nada que hacer, se impuso la estúpida moda de liberar bellezas prisioneras. La mayor parte, por suerte, se rompió la nuca.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski