Quotes About Foolishness

The greatest misfortune in the world is to have more learning than common sense.

Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she couldn't stand was how—for many years, really—she had been made happy by such a thing. She had not thought she would ever become immune to the beauty of the physical world, but there you were. The river sparkled with the sun that rose, enough that she needed her sunglasses.

How old am I? Old enough to know it's impossible to change the thinking of fools, but young and foolish enough to keep on trying.

The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

To openly defy Him who is clothed with omnipotence, who can rend us in pieces or cast us into Hell any moment He pleases, is the very height of insanity. To

Todo lo vivido aprovecha, de una u otra forma. Excepto para los fanáticos y los imbéciles.

Una de aquellas sonrisas hechas de esa lucidez y esa mirada penetrante que en las mujeres constituye exclusivo patrimonio; fruto de siglos y siglos de ver, en silencio, a los hombres cometiendo toda suerte de estupideces

el dinero de los tontos es el patrimonio de los listos.

La cólera de los idiotas llena el mundo

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

To say that a grasshopper should work like an ant is a piece of foolishness perpetuated through centuries. The grasshopper won't change. In any case it is the ant who should change.

All of us do foolish things, but the wiser realize what they do. The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. That failure is a common affliction of authority.

If there's one thing I've learned it's what a woman can do to a man's common sense.

The foolish man who, under the infatuation, believes that a particular beautiful woman has fallen for him verily dances to her tune as though he is her plaything!

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots—" "What?" "Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes.

foolishly disregard His Word. — Wayne A. Pearson —

Wise words bring many benefits, and hard work brings rewards. Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to others. PROVERBS 12:14-

In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).

Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we're young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we're standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

the harm that's in the world now as often comes through folly as through malice.

Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.