Quotes About Foolish

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.

Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

Sometimes stupid is crime enough.

Love may be blind, but lust is just damn stupid.

True evil is always petty and often incompetent.

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

if ever a pope should command me to play on the flute, build towers, to mend or weave garments, and to stuff sausages, ought not my reason to judge that the pope was foolish in so commanding?

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

pero si no se ve lo trágico de todo se es un idiota.

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.

Comment l'homme est-il assez insensé pour quitter cette vie tant qu'il n'a pas épuisé toutes ses chances de bonheur ? Celui qui perd sa fortune au jeu quitte-t-il le tapis tant qu'il lui reste une pièce d'or ? Une seule pièce peut lui rendre tout.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

Readers have some peculiar notions about the status of writers, the most foolish of which is that writers are treated like royalty by their publishers.

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!