Quotes About Foolishness

You don't catch me sending my voice to Philadelphia when the chances are I may need it any minute around here to frighten burglars away with. The idea of a man's being so foolish as to send his voice way out to Chicago on a wire with nobody to look after it, stumps me.

No one understood, she thought, the horrible, insidious, snake-like fear which could run through one's body, sapping one's will to the point when one behaved foolishly simply because one could not think clearly.

we probably don't know many of the answers and can't argue cleverly. And yet I suppose there's room for the stupid as well,

It only takes one man to make a woman a fool.

Folly is a child of power.

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

Because one man is a fool, is that reason why his friend ... should not be wise? Because one man throws away a diamond, why his comrade should not pick it up and wear it on his finger?

We fool ourselves into thinking we're strong then complain the rest of our lives crippled by the consequences.

We all do stupid things, Conscience. If they don't kill us, they weren't stupid enough, I guess.

I'm going to die. This is how I'm going to die, and this is where I'm going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.

Anything that keeps you from singing is foolishness, unless it's laughter.

Now we've gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish.

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.

Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.

People say child stars have a hard time 'because of the entertainment business,' but I think there's a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, 'If you're a fool without money, you'll be a fool with money.'

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.

Force will not keep the empire together. Force has never kept anything together for the very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers. You're a foolish man Governor. Foolish men often choke to death on their own delusions.

Who's the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?

Why know the name of a thing when the thing itself you do not know? Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!" But

No man knows it when he is making an idiot of himself.

But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!

the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!