Quotes About Foolishness

You'll laugh at me, of course"—Geoffrey smiled a hasty and unconvincing negative—"but in the long run it is the people who dream of being men of action who are the men of action. Admittedly Don Quixote made a fool of himself with the windmills, but when all's said and done, there probably were giants about.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Samfélagið hvílir á fjórum stöplum, hugsaði hann: fáfræði, leti, ranglæti og asnaskap.

En serio. Haceme caso —insiste Federico—. Nunca subestimes la estupidez de la gente.

Los idiotas siempre están seguros de todo, salvo de lo idiotas que son.

Nunca. Nunca, jamás, hay que caer en manos de un boludo. Porque si uno termina en manos de un boludo significa que uno también es un boludo. Un boludo más boludo aún que el boludo en cuyas manos cayó.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

How can he get wisdom… whose talk is of bullocks?

Better to live alone; with a fool there is no companionship. With few desires live alone and do no evil, like an elephant in the forest roaming at will.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king.

The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

Great men are not always wise.

Profess not the knowledge… that thou hast not.A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.