Top 100 Foolish Quotes
#1. No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
Moliere
#3. Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate,
I find under the boughs of love and hate,
In all poor foolish things that live a day,
Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
W.B.Yeats
#4. First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
Maria Edgeworth
#6. Who's the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?
George Lucas
#7. It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#8. How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.
Ruta Sepetys
#9. Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
W. Somerset Maugham
#10. To program the calories you must consume and the number of hours you must sleep is a foolish way to handle life.
Sadhguru
#13. In all of history, we have found just one cure for error - a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.
David Brin
#15. I'd be foolish not to take some of opportunities that are coming my way. We all know this can go away at any moment.
Kim Kardashian
#16. An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.
Tahir Shah
#17. If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead of the care of persons, is foolish.
Tony Campolo
#18. O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#19. How foolish it was of Christ to purchase for us at the price of his shed blood the Spirit we did not need, in order that we might be given a facility in keeping the commandments, who we already have one by nature.
Martin Luther
#20. Foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.
Julie Garwood
#21. It's foolish to talk of an "Asian century" or an "emerging market century" because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.
Ian Bremmer
#22. And I remember being foolish enough to think... let's fall in love.
Jeph Loeb
#23. She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering strings of alphanumerics. They have told her so themselves. To save time, they simply call her Snow.
Nenia Campbell
#24. The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.
Edmund A. Opitz
#25. I'd be foolish if I didn't return her interest." He puffed out his chest. "And no one has ever called me a fool."
Rosika's jaw tightened. She rubbed her temples. "I'm giving it some serious consideration.
Jess Schira
#26. It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.
Gracie Allen
#28. If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.
Jonathan Haidt
#29. Our fates are locked together. It would be foolish of me to anger God by leaving you.
Mark Tompkins
#30. You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
Colette
#31. The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.
Martin Wolf
#32. If every man who passed an unjust judgment on his fellow should be condemned, how many judges would be found so vain and foolish as to review and condemn their Maker's work?
Clarence Darrow
#33. Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but rather are practiced to beget most foolish questions, are to be deprived of the communion of the Church.
Pope Innocent I
#34. Cowardice and courage are just labels - words invented by foolish men to bolster their egos and denigrate their enemies. In battle we should be cold, clinical, and disciplined. That
Joseph Delaney
#35. James could do all this because he had made a bargain with himself: he wouldn't try to get killed, nor would he try to survive. He could do all this because he felt terribly sorry for the men he rescued. They harbored the saddest and most foolish desire of all. The desire to go on living.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#36. And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that.
Sylvain Reynard
#37. Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy Zahn
#38. It would be foolish to be frightened by death, because all of us, sooner or later, are going to die. And only those who accept this fact are prepared for life.
Paulo Coelho
#39. There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
Isaac Asimov
#40. I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.
George Eliot
#41. How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
William Shakespeare
#42. Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.
Paul C. Nagel
#43. Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
Kevin O'Leary
#44. Graves they say are warm'd by glory;
Foolish words and empty story.
Heinrich Heine
#45. For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence.
Samuel Richardson
#46. Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.
Edward Gibbon
#47. Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?
Nadege Richards
#48. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven ...
Saint Augustine
#49. It is foolish to cling to ghosts or spent bones. It is better to forge ahead
Roshani Chokshi
#50. Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.
Winston Churchill
#51. If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
Kajol
#52. Cash is king. No matter how many good opportunities come your way, do not invest all your cash. If you run out of reserves, the smallest or foolish of things may bring you down. Companies with millions in assets have gone bankrupt because they cannot make a $25,000 payment.
Mauricio Chaves Mesen
#53. But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?
Muhammad Asad
#55. It seems to me that a queen who trusts no one is as foolish as a queen who trusts everyone.
George R R Martin
#56. To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.
Bertrand Russell
#57. I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.
Tim Kaine
#58. So much of power is not what you do but what you do not do - the rash and foolish actions that you refrain from before they get you into trouble.
Robert Greene
#60. Whoever marries an adulterer is foolish; whoever marries a contentious spouse will never rest. A righteous wife will make your home a heaven; an immoral husband will make your home a hell.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#62. I was very sorry that i had been in a temper --- but I was sorry because it was foolish and undignified, not because it was wicked.
L.M. Montgomery
#63. You're worth fucking all that." I stared at him as that warmth swept through me again but I replied, "It's foolish." "You're worth bein' that too.
Kristen Ashley
#64. Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
Sophocles
#65. 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.
Caspar Weinberger
#66. As a vessel is known by its sound whether it be cracked or not, so men are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or foolish.
Demosthenes
#67. Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
Fuxi
#68. Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?
China Mieville
#70. It is unquestionably foolish to begin a battle when you don't know the full strength of your adversary.
Claire Kent
#71. This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell
#72. It is a foolish judge who, before the evidence is presented, makes a judgement.
Peter Tremayne
#73. Perhaps the gods punish us by bringing us face to face with our own foolish mistakes, condemning us to watch our children fall into the same traps that crippled us.
Robin Hobb
#74. For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.
Plato
#75. It is like the man who closes his eyes to the sun and then finds himself walking over the edge of a cliff. If the man is too foolish to use the gift of light given to him, how can the sun be blamed for his death?
Katie Beitz
#76. All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.
John Tukey
#77. It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.
Milton Friedman
#78. I may be getting old, but not foolish.
Elia Kazan
#79. Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
Chuck Palahniuk
#80. Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.
Joyce Cary
#81. What an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospection I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.
Charles Dickens
#82. "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#83. if ever a pope should command me to play on the flute, build towers, to mend or weave garments, and to stuff sausages, ought not my reason to judge that the pope was foolish in so commanding?
Jan Hus
#84. There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.
W. Somerset Maugham
#85. I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.
Danny Boyle
#86. But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish desires and schemes that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all of evil and some having pursued its power, fall from faith and end in sorrow.
Saint Timothy
#87. A man's jealousy is like a child's, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman's jealousy is adult, which is very different.
Daphne Du Maurier
#88. Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish
to just ask the question.
Melissa Senate
#89. I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.
Charles Lindbergh
#90. A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.
Julie Hebert
#91. The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
Criss Jami
#92. The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
Finley Peter Dunne
#93. He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision.
James Joyce
#94. The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
Jason Mraz
#95. Avoid foolish questions. - Titus 3:9 OUR days are few, and are far better spent in doing good, than in disputing over matters which are, at best, of minor importance.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#96. What does wine do to men?"
"It makes them more foolish at a higher volume.
Maya Rodale
#97. I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever
Prince Charles
#98. Expect the worst and you can't be disappointed. Optimism is the luxury of the young, the foolish and the dullard.
Luke Scull
#99. A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
Chanakya
#100. Rome took all the vanity out of me,for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in dispare.
Louisa May Alcott
