Foolish Quotes

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.

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.

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.