Foolish Quotes

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

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.

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.

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.