Foolish Quotes

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

I'd be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

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

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.