Top 1200 Foolish Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.
It is immature and very foolish to hold anyone responsible for the weakness that I would have in my relationship.
A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.
Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.
Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.
Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.
To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.
What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
Now we've gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish.
We get into captivity because of our foolishness and we are more foolish that we want to admit.
It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.
Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
A lot of times losing a game is not taking care of the football, foolish penalties.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
The perception is if you are not 206lbs then you can't be considered main event talent, which is foolish.
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.
That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool.
Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
