Foolish Quotes

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

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!

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.