Quotes About Foolishness

We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.

'Taskmaster' taps into a universal humour of people making a fool of themselves.

People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you." My dad.

a man whose ignorance and perverseness are only surpassed by his pertinacity and conceit.

We are fools when we love. I was terrified of losing her. I thought I saw her changing--I don't know if she really was, but I couldn't bear the uncertainty any longer. I ran toward the finish just like a coward runs toward the enemy and wins a medal. I wanted to get death over.

Smart man to admit he's an idiot

It is always a fool's mistake, Didier once said to me, to be alone with someone you shouldn't have loved.

E' sempre un errore molto sciocco rimanere soli con qualcuno di cui non avresti mai dovuto innamorarti

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Too clever is dumb.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.

We are commanded by fools and incompetents.

Sometimes we are so foolish in our thoughts that even fools would baulk at what we are thinking.

Notwendig man viel Narren findet, Denn viel sind an sich selbst erblindet, Die mit Gewalt wollen weise sein, Da jedermann mit klarem Schein Wohl ihre Narrheit sieht.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.