Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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.
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.
If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
Sometimes I wish I hadn't said something foolish. It is then that I realize the power of mime.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Stay hungry, stay foolish.
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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