Foolish Quotes - Page 8

• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Wise, Knowledge

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• As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.

  William Stanley Jevons

  People

  William Stanley Jevons (1880). “Political Economy”

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• A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Broken, Ethics, Morality

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• I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Wise, Strong, Sadness

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• I train very hard, until I am sick. Sometimes I train like a foolish man who has no mind.

  Hicham El Guerrouj

  Men, Foolish Man, Sick

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• Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Government, Opposites

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• Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Summer, Running, Home

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• Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side, your shadow self, and you've now joined as one.

  Alyson Noel

  Dark, Self, Differences

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• Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

  R. Scott Bakker

  Boys, Hands, Belief

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• Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.

  Ian Mcewan

  Thinking, Light, Mad

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• To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

  Louise Erdrich

  Perfection, Tasks, Splendor

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• I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Crazy, Sound, Emotion

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.143, Gideon House Books

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• Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Clever, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.29, Om Books International

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• One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Silly, Want

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• Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails.

  Francine Rivers

  Moving, Fall, Eye

  Francine Rivers (2012). “Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection”, p.361, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Girl, Lying, Home

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She was delighted and transported, in a perfect place, the world she lived for. Her world contained two things: Hunter, and the Beast. The Beast knew that too. It was the perfect match, the hunter and the hunted. And who was who, and which was which, only time would reveal; time and the dance.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Perfect, Hunters

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• If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

  Christian Bale

  Feelings, Risk, Emotion

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• God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

  John Wilmot

  Wise, Kings, Promise

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart

  Marilyn Monroe

  Hurt, Sorry, Heart

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• It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, World, Needs

  Anne Rice (2011). “New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Men, Justice, Sound

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• I have to get back there." I said to Adrian. "Into that door." He arched an eyebrow. "What, like sneaking in? How very black ops of you. And oh, you know— dangerous and foolish." "I know." I said, surprised at how calm I sounded as I admitted that. "But I have to know something, and this may be my only chance." "Then I'll go with you in case that guy comes back," he said with a sigh. "Never let it be said Adrian Ivashkov doesn't help damsels in distress.

  Richelle Mead

  Doors, Eyebrows, Guy

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.154, Penguin

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• One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

  Otto von Bismarck

  War, One Day, Balkans

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• Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Thinking, Fire

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