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Quotes About Foolish

I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improvement of my mind but I find that much of it has been spent extremely foolish and that walking in the pasture at dusk with virtuous, amiable and genteel young ladies I experience none but swineish passions. I commenced to read Russell's Modern Europe sometime last summer.
~ John Cheever
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
~ Jennifer Beals
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.
~ Euripides
Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.
~ Paulo Coelho
In like a dimwit, out like a light.
~ Walt Kelly
They were not willfully cruel, you know. Only foolish. Misguided by their learning, their ambition, their own self-deceiving blindness.
~ Diane Setterfield
The Word of God always speaks of two great divisions of mankind, and only two. It speaks of the living and the dead in sin, the believer and the unbeliever, the converted and the unconverted, the travelers in the narrow way and the travelers in the broad, the wise and the foolish, the children of God and the children of the devil.
~ J.C. Ryle
It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.
~ Jack Gilbert
Only the foolish and the uncaring make guarantees. Circumstances change, the world moves on, While wisdom, and sometimes decency, Require constant adjustments.
~ Jack McDevitt
gauging the truth of a person merely by looking is a fool's habit.
~ M.J. Rose
There was nothing clever to say, so I said something foolish.
~ Madeline Miller
But a monster," he said, "she always has a place. She may have all the glory her teeth can snatch. She will not be loved for it, but she will not be constrained either. So whatever foolish sorrow you harbor, forget it. I think it may be said that you improved her.
~ Madeline Miller
It seemed absurd even to think of it, foolish and improbable as a dream is by dinner.
~ Madeline Miller
Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside
~ John F. Kennedy
She acted naively and impulsively
~ John Guy
Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.
~ John Hospers
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. BILL COSBY
~ John Lloyd
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
~ Charles Spurgeon
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
~ John Calvin
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
~ Unknown
A person who persistently insults others, can be forced to feel foolish if, he is continuously ignored.
~ Unknown
Saying 'Wow, You're cool.' when you see someone doing something stupid.
~ Unknown
War has always seemed to me a foolish choice for men. Whatever they win from it, they will have only a handful of years to enjoy before they die. More likely they will perish trying.
~ Madeline Miller