Quotes About Foolish

Everyone's a knucklehead at one point or another.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

I try not to be one particular type of comedian - I try to be foolish, and silly, and surreal, and quite angry and sarcastic and dry.

Cynicism is, first of all, a style of presenting oneself, and more than anything, cynics take pride in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both of those things.

The main reason I felt foolish and humiliated was because of - what had I called it to myself, only a few days previously? - 'the eternal hopefulness of the human heart'. And before that, 'the attraction of overcoming someone's contempt'. I don't think I normally suffer from vanity, but I'd clearly been more afflicted than I realised.

Gregor, have you ever been in love? No, I've never been that foolish.

It is a foolish man who apologizes without reason.

Load of ole mollygrubbers

Gwendolen's mother had been a foolish woman, inclined to believe any passing nonsense. Of such people were patriots made, in Gwendolen's opinion. More's the pity.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.