Quotes About Foolishness

And yet she knew that something must be done. She could not afford to wait as other girls might do. Why not Sir Griffin as well as any other fool? It may be doubted whether she knew how obstinate, how hard, how cruel to a woman a fool can be

He did not tell Phineas, in so many words, that he was proposing to make an ass of himself.

Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.

Now a prig is a pert fellow who gives himself airs of superior wisdom. A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour. A prig is a tedious individual who, having made a discovery, is so impressed by his discovery that he is capable of being gravely displeased because the entire world is not also impressed by it. Unconsciously to become a prig is an easy and a fatal thing.

It's stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit - Nema neugodnije budale od one koja ima nešto duha.

You're drunk as four skunks, you idiot.

Put knowledge in the hands of stupid people, and it just made them more stupid.

I weep to think of all the tricks you've played on me since I've had you for a husband …and now, as if all that weren't enough, you decide to become a circus clown. A penny-a-liner! And to think there are even worse fools than you who will pay to read what you write!

twas somewhat about good days falling to wise folk, but the best days of all falling to those who dare to be unwise.

God bless you, little Kristin, I've been to Paris and traveled elsewhere in the world as well, and yet you mustn't think me any better for it, for I fear the Devil and love and desire this world like a fool.

There are no fools so troublesome as those of the mind

ISMENE A chi vive tra le sofferenze il senno non rimane, signore, ma svanisce.»

Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? 'A fool and her money soon part.' Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale's.

I've often noticed that people equate 'having a sense of humour' with 'being an insensitive moron'.) This

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.

What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day, Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen. Death is the end of all. Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.

TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.

And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Creon: See that you never side with those who break my orders. Leader: Never. Only a fool could be in love with death. Creon: Death is the price - you're right. But all too often the mere hope of money has ruined many men.