Foolish Quotes

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

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

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

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

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

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

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

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

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

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.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.