Foolish Quotes

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.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

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.

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'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

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.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

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.

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

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.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

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.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.

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

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.