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Quotes About Foolish

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
~ Kabir
what a bloody silly way to die…
~ Jeff Vandermeer
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
It was the silliest victory of her entire life.
~ Jennifer Egan
More than anything in life, she wishes she'd let him. That she'd smiled for the camera. That she'd said yes. Life was gone before you knew it;how foolish she'd been to refuse any of it.
~ Jennifer Haigh
In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
~ Émile Zola
And would it not be foolish to mourn a calamity above twenty years beforehand?
~ Emily Bronte
It is like walking in a crowd. A foolish crowd of oddities in a corridor under an enemy city, without an idea of where they are going.
~ Emily Rodda
Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you... ... What is it? [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. Yeah, agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. Why am I an imbecile?
~ Eoin Colfer
Times relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise
~ Epictetus
Time relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise.
~ Epictetus
Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness.
~ Epictetus
if you are foolish, foolish is going to stay out.
~ Ana Monnar
I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!
~ Andie MacDowell
Bienaventurados los imbéciles, porque de ellos es el reino de la tierra.
~ Andrés Caicedo
Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.
~ Tyson Fury
Predictions are preposterous.
~ Jackie Mason
fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and raw, uncalculated emotion. Well-read, fluent in French, and the wealthy child of privilege, he could be crude, rude, and plain foolish. He had reduced his extensive study of history and military art to a five-word manifesto of war: "violent attacks everywhere with everything.
~ Rick Atkinson
If people are essentially lazy or foolish, they leave clues to this in the smallest of details that you can pick up well before their behavior harms you.
~ Robert Greene
Know that love has chosen you to live his crucial purposes. Know that love has chosen you. And will not pamper you nor spare; demands obedience to all the rigorous laws of risk, does not pamper, will not spare. Oh, master now love's instruments— complex and not for the fearful, simple and not for the foolish. Master now love's instruments. I who love you tell you this, even as the pitiful killer waits for me, I who love you tell you this.
~ Robert Hayden
Pain and sickness and hunger and fighting—there's no need for any of it. It's as foolish as those little monkeys.
~ Robert Heinlein
Un soldado que se culpa por la muerte de sus compañeros en la batalla es un necio.
~ Robert Jordan
we had to live outside our own reality for years. We often got into arguments with other people, and were occasionally criticized for being dreamers, foolish, reckless, or risky.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
~ L.M. Montgomery