Quotes About Foolishness

I am stupid. And kind. Which makes the biggest idiot in the world.

He'd probably say that he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;

La verdad es que un minero que no piensa que está trabajando en su propia sepultura es un tonto.

Foolish perhaps, but I play for high stakes and given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble.

How often I find myself called wrong,' Churchill had written to his wife on 17 April 1924, 'for warning of follies in time.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

And a strong man, she said. Strong enough to be vulnerable, to take risks, to be honest even when honesty might expose him to ridicule or rejection. And someone who would put himself at the center of my world even before knowing that I would be willing to do the same for him. A man foolish and brave enough to tell me that he loves me even when I have hidden all signs that I love him in return.

reason. Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!" "You see!" said Athelney Jones, reappearing down the steps

Esta vez, Watson, califíqueme en su relato como de burro completo.

Qué estúpidos fuimos al suponer que la muerte era nuestro enemigo!

A veces encuentra algo- comentó Holmes, encogiéndose de hombros-. De cuando en cuando tiene algún chispaso de razón, il n'y a pas des sots si incomodes que ceux qui ont de l'ésprit! ( Los tontos que más molestan son los que tienen ingenio)

Consider the fiddlesticks!

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

Las esperanzas son como los adornos del pelo. De joven se pueden llevar demasiados. Pero cuando envejeces, tan sólo uno ya te hace parecer tonta.

De joven se sueña todo tipo de tonterías, Sayuri. Las esperanzas son como los adornos del pelo. De joven se pueden llevar demasiados. Pero cuando envejeces, tan solo uno ya te hace parecer tonta.

The storm came pretty soon, said John. They won't have got much further before it caught them. We may find them any minute. They'll have got off the ice the moment the snow began. If only they had sense, said Susan. But they haven't got any, not that sort. People oughtn't to be allowed to be brought up in towns.

Society is in this respect like a fire-the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.

The life of a fool is worse than death[1].

De liefdesverdrietige is een dwaas, die zich heeft laten misleiden.

mas sabe el necio en su casa, que el sabio en la agena.

Der Tor läuft den Genüssen des Lebens nach und sieht sich betrogen.

Voltaire says, we shall leave this world as foolish and as wicked as we found it on our arrival.