Foolish Quotes

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

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.

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.

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.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

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

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.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?