Foolish Quotes

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

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.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

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.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.