Top 1200 Foolish Mistakes Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

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.

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.

Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

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.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do, don't give up.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself.

For me, it's really easy to be kind to others when I remember that none of us came into this world with a manual about how to get it all right. We are ultimately a product of our biology and environment. Consequently, I choose to be compassionate with others when I consider how much painful emotional baggage we are biologically programmed to carry around. I recognize that mistakes will be made, but this does not mean that I need to either victimize myself or take your actions and mistakes personally. Your stuff is your stuff, and my stuff is my stuff.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times I want to kiss you midsentence. undo the not-doing with one gesture.

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

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

A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but Ill stop short of calling it foolish.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.

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

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

We all get motivated differently and I think as you get older, you'd be foolish not to draw on your experiences from the past.

Froi saw the foolishness of dreamers, and he decided he'd like to die so foolish. With a dream in his heart about the possibilities, rather than a chain of hopelessness.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

I try not to be one particular type of comedian - I try to be foolish, and silly, and surreal, and quite angry and sarcastic and dry.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

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

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.