Foolish Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.