Quotes About Foolish

I don't think I am heartless. Do you?' 'You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give yourself that name, Dorian,' answered Lord Henry with his sweet melancholy smile.

The powerful though vague and unsubstantiated presumption is that something has been found out that renders a spiritual understanding of reality in the manner of Jesus simply foolish to those who are "in the know." But when it comes time to say exactly what it is that has been found out, nothing of substance is forthcoming.

To admit we are foolish, weak, and in need of repentance gives the vindictive and self-righteous camp plenty of ammunition to turn against us and to turn others against our leadership. But the alternatives to living in and living out truth are far worse: we either hide from truth or we choose to spin our sin and our story.

how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They're people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.

And how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They're people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

We are all to some extent the products of an exploitive society, and it would be foolish and self-defeating to pretend that we do not bear its stamp.

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as a person.

I never think anyone in love is foolish. We do the best we can.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said.

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?

Oh, you stupid, if there's a right way and a wrong way, trust you to find the dumb way.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

Is it more foolish and childish to assume there is a conspiracy, or that there is not?

He who is foolish finds disaster

My good sir, is she your daughter then?' 'Yes, but don't pay any attention to what she says,' said the lord. 'She's a child - a silly, foolish thing.' 'Indeed,' said my lord Gawain, 'then I'd be very ill-mannered not to do what she wants.

EPIGRAPH "There was a very strange connection. One of those odd collisions that happen. We were a little alike; I was an unhealthy child that was kept at home. So there was an unsaid feeling between us that was wonderful, an utter naturalness. We'd sit for hours and not say a word, and then she'd say something, and I'd answer her. A reporter once asked her what we talked about. She said, 'Nothing foolish.'" —Andrew Wyeth

Oh foolishest fond folly of a heart Divided, neither here nor there at rest! That hankers after Heaven, but clings to earth That neither here nor there knows thorough mirth, Half-choosing, wholly missing, the good part: — Oh fool among the foolish, in thy quest. ~ Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets

Liberty and equality," said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words were, "high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

Nothing made you look like more of a dick than standing there trying to find the end of your scabbard with the tip of your sword.