Quotes About Foolhardy

Who am I to know my own  motives. But I did foolhardy things.

To be perfectly honest with you, I think it's reckless to love and trust another person. It's clearly foolhardy.I'd like it very much if the many daredevils who go ahead anyway, enjoyed this book.

take a lot, a lot of imprudent risks themselves and be blinded by the odds.

Some people you just do not want to leave outside the tent pissing in, and in my early twenties, self-confident and naïve, I was about as safe to leave lying around unsupervised as half a ton of sweating gelignite.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line, dudes.

Jaime," she said, tugging on his ear, "sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna's breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there's some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak … but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you. I said so once to your father's face, and he would not speak to me for half a year. Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.

I knew it was foolhardy; men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.

You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men—and exceedingly stupid men, usually—do.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

But courage was not lacking in her heart, though it might be foolhardy and unwise.

My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.

Okay," I said. "Let's do something really goddamn stupid.

I was a worshipper of the foolhardy and the melodramatic, a dreamer and a moper, raging at life and loving it, a mind in a chrysalis yet erupting with sudden bursts of maturity.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

You know that saying about how fools rush in where wise men fear to tread? Ashok rushes in where fools won't even go.

The cereal box says, 'Did you hear the one about the foolhardy mouse who clicked on a sleeping bear? (Punch line inside!)' ... The punch line (inside!) says, 'The bear didn't get mad, he got even. He waited until the mouse and his family were all asleep inside their den and then he burst in and opened fire, killing everyone. Sweet revenge!

Walter drained more than half of the scalding hot liquid in one foolhardy gulp, utterly unmindful of his burnt tongue.

Okay," Nina said. "We're all thinking it, but I'm going to say it. That was really, really stupid. If I hadn't brought my gun, we'd all be dead.

As a motivation in itself, celebrity is foolhardy and stupid.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.