Quotes About Foolery

#1. Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

William Shakespeare

#2. Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

John Selden

#3. If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Hermann Hesse

#5. Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish ... It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

Hermann Hesse

#6. Utter foolery shouldn't be delegated

Lindsay Buroker

#7. CELIA: For since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes great a show.

William Shakespeare

#8. The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.

Walter De La Mare

#9. The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

William Shakespeare

#10. How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

Andre Gide

#11. If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

John Steinbeck

#12. Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

Jason Mraz

#13. Johnny Guitar ... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together. I would hear him sing every night.

Etta James

#14. If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Dale Carnegie

#15. I know this perfectly well, but it was precisely this that I liked - her thinking me silly. Such a peculiar vice: to be secretly pleased to be allowed to observe that one is being slightly robbed.

Robert Walser

#16. The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the horizontal position, and if you look closer still you'll see that it's less gracefully shaped, more of a ragged slot, dirty yellow. And you'll see that the white of a goat's eye is all black.

Eugene Marten

#17. And it was one of these observers who designed the tests and simulations carried out on Old Earth during the last three centuries of its exile in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud to better explain our species to them and measure the empathy of which we are capable.

Dan Simmons

#18. Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#19. No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

Gena Showalter

#20. History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

Bennie Thompson

#21. The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.

William Shakespeare

#23. I think just vocally I have a little timber in my voice that God gave me that does work - it puts my own DNA onto it.

Danny Gokey