Top 1200 Foolish Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

You are drained by foolish actions and others.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "I am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg." But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself." We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

It's so easy to look foolish online.

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

Those who don't try never look foolish.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

We all do make foolish mistakes.

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

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

I definitely have been foolish.

The least foolish is wise.

When we are foolish God intervenes.

... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind of Christ' (I Cor. 2:16), think that he who has the mind of Christ is foolish, and that he who has it not is sensible. Of these the prophet David rightly states, 'The ignorant and foolish perish together' (Ps. 49:11). Therefore such men twist the whole of Scripture according to their own desires (cf. II Pet. 3:3, 16) and corrupt themselves in their own passions. But it is not divine Scripture that suffers from this, but those who disfigure it!

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.

There is nothing foolish about hope.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.

It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.

It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.

He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

Empty Chambers make foolish maides.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress. And I thought, that was a foolish, wicked thing to say, because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said-for those first notices. I find it so stupid. I remember the critic very well, and have never forgiven him.

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

Looking foolish does the spirit good.