Foolish Quotes - Page 2

• Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Courage, Greatness

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• 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

  Time, Stupid, Journey

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• Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

  William John Wills

  Stupid, Clothes, Doe

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• Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

  Timothy Zahn

  Luck, Ignorant, Illusion

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• 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.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Anniversary, Marriage, Congratulations

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• It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Progress, Possibility, Contemplating

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

  Mika

  Heart, Past, Men

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• Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

  Russell Hoban

  Stupid, Silly, Loss

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.146, A&C Black

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

  Jeanette Winterson

  Stupid, Thinking, Would Be

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• 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.

  Steve Lacy

  Crazy, Stupid, Years

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Passion

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• It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

  James Taylor

  Years, Forever, Goes On

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Demosthenes

  Wise, Stupid, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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

  George Eliot

  Women, Stupid, Ems

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

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• You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

  Johnny Vegas

  Women, Winning, Las Vegas

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

  Gustav Stresemann

  Stupid, Opposites, Two

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• We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Success, Luxury

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• Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Pleasant Surprises, Pleasure

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 26 (Mr John Knightley)

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• Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

  J. G. Holland

  Stupid, Pride, Progress

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• It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

  Dusty Springfield

  Stupid, Thinking, Lasts

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• 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.

  Jonathan Frakes

  Stars, Stupid, Pennies

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• Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Silence, Personality

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.312, Courier Corporation

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• How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Past, Men, Worry

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• This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

  George Ripley

  Stupid, Thinking, Water

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• Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Stupid, Writing

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.109, Om Books International

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