Foolish Quotes

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

God, Wise, Before

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

Life, Death, Wise

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

Wise, Fool, Learn

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Fool, Witty, Wit

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.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Wise, Fool

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton

God, Men, Wrong

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

Minds, Statesmen, Adored

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington

Character, Person, Mean

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Gilbert Parker

Memory, Deeds, Spirits

Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Steve Jobs

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
Jim Rohn

Men, Thought, Makes

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela

Off, Water, Turn

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus

Stupid, Thought, Content

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
Frank Sinatra

Face, Clown, Dare

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Martin Luther

Nothing, Else, Lord

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

Nature, Wise, Slave

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

Passion, Leave, Pretend

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H. L. Mencken

Good, Women, Deal

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, Men, Death

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.
George Orwell

Life, Fun, Young

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball

Love, Business, Try

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Education, Wise, Lack

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Evil, Nothing, Before

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Older, Wiser, Grows

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
George Eliot

Women, God, Men

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Made, Hair, Less

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides

Fool, Sense, Talk

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