Foolish Quotes - Page 25

• That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

  Dick Costolo

  Silly, Issues, Reactions

  dick costolo @dickc, twitter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.

  Peter Murphy

  Funny, Romantic, Sex

  Peter Murphy (2015). “Lagan Love”, p.81, Fiction Studio Books

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• It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

  Joel Salatin

  Culture, Simpletons, Food Supply

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• I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Practice, People

  "The Worst Man in the World". The Sunday Dispatch, July 02, 1933.

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• Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again, all foolish blunders, all silly mistakes, all loss of time and opportunity - everything will be repeated with the exception of the chance you had this time, because chance never comes in the same form.You will have to look for your chance next time. And in order to do this, you will have to remember many things, and how will you remember then if you do not remember anything now?

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Mistake, Silly, Loss

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• Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

  Horace Walpole

  Reader

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford”, p.494

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• I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

  Alison Uttley

  Thinking, Imagination, Difficult

  "Diaries reveal dark side to Little Grey Rabbit's creator" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Usual, Week, Hours

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.

  Ouida

  Friendship, Errors, May

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• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Fools Day, Doubt, April Fools

  Cynthia Heimel (1988). “But Enough about You”, Fireside

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• A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.

  Marcel Proust

  Science, Doctors, Fool

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1111, Wordsworth Editions

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• To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Lying, Men, Mad

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• The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Break Up, Glasses, Fools Day

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• It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

  Jennifer Beals

  Lost Friendship, Use, Directors

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• Every Christian leader should have this engraved in his subconscious. No matter what you do, never take yourself too seriously God always chooses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. He shows his might only on the behalf of those who trust in Him. Humility is the place where all christian service begins.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christian, Wise, Humility

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books

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• Hundreds of stupid flies gather
  On a piece of rotten meat,
  Enjoying, they think, a delicious feast.
  This image fits with the song
  Of the myriads of foolish living beings
  Who seek happiness in superficial pleasures;
  In countless ways they try,
  Yet I have never seen them satisfied.

  7th Dalai Lama

  Song, Stupid, Thinking

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• Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life. I was beset on all sides by invisible worries. So, I shut myself in and slept. I slept until sleep exhausted me. Spring passed, summer ended, fall came, and then winter arrived. Then, it turned into another gentle spring.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

  George Saintsbury

  Giving, Style, Gold

  George Saintsbury (1913). “The English Novel”

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• To overcome the intelligent by folly is contrary to the natural order of things; to overcome the foolish by intelligence is in accord with the natural order. To overcome the intelligent by intelligence, however, is a matter of opportunity.

  Zhuge Liang

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Order

  Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Jobs, Men, Effort

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.53, Bottom of the Hill

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• If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises. If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don't have to run away. You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.

  Ajahn Chah

  Running, Lying, Teaching

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• Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don't want to eat spinach. Heaven is not for people who just want to skip Hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him. If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for Heaven.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Mean, Thinking

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• It's sort of like a mockery in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wonder around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile...you can tell by people's eyes.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Flower, Mean, Eye

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• "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

  Eye, School, Sorrow

  "The Cry of the Human" l. 7 (1844)

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• The very idea that you can pursue happiness, that you can deserve it, that you can demand it, that you have the right to be happy, is foolish. Nobody has the right to be happy. You can be happy, but there is nothing like a right about it. And if you think that it is your right you will go on missing, because you have started to look in the wrong direction from the very beginning.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Thinking, Ideas

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