Foolishness Quotes

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the man...

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free ...

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Our wisdom comes from our experience,and our experience comes from our foolishness.

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay whe...

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Has he written to you?''He writes frequently.''Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M...

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to oper...

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along an...

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for cent...

Youth is a failing only tooeasily outgrown.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on t...

I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthi...

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally ...

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...

Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in ...

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the l...

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Governme...

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness ...

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked int...

We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it...

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dre...

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent en...

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Every inch that is not fool is rogue.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who ass...

Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my fath...

There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to u...

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr...

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .