Quotes About Foolishness

Beyond stupid," John said. "You play with fire, you're going to get the horns, Quentin. Remember I said that." "How could I forget?

Well has it been said: the man obsessed Is a cock of the walk in a hurry towards the worst.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.

Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.

I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.

People always more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser

Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

What a dim-witted slug the average human being is.

You do beat all for natural stupidness.

Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.