Quotes About Foolish

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

...and leave wishes to those foolish enough to make them.

Nobody needs to be described as silly: let your analysis show that he is.

Chasing perfection is like chasing the fountain of youth—it's a fool's mission. Immediately divorce your self-esteem from perfectionism.

Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.

O foolish man, for God doth detect every nuance of the sick will!

That silly pimp!

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.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

He was distraught, of course: he was just the kind of idiot who could only understand what things meant by doing them first.

I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned, utterly foolish, has nothing to do with anything, is exactly the kind of thinking that ought to be got rid of in our society; on still another hand, having that insight into my reaction does not seem to calm my irritation.

The polite thing would be to go back inside, give you privacy when you read it. But, I'm just not that mature.' 'It's nothing. Fine.' Feeling foolish, Laurel opened the envelope. You might think this is over, but you'd be wrong. I've taken your shoes hostage. Contact me within forty-eight hours, or the Pradas get it.

selfish and foolish, but she hugged it to her as she bundled

I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had

It's all right to be crazy, it's not all right to be stupid.

Only the foolish waste their wishes.

Soy un estúpido y todo cuanto hago es desear y necesitar cosas.

orders were specific in one regard: if any protestor was foolish