Foolishness Quotes

It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Adlai Stevenson

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Who loves not women wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no chance for old fools.

Cree Indian proverb

There are bearded fools.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

St. Francis de Sales

If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.

There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'

Dean William R. Inge

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

George

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.

Louis Armstrong

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Every inch that is not fool is rogue.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Anonymous

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks.

La Rochefoucauld

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

A fool's head never whitens.

For ye suffer fools gladly seeing ye yourselves are wise.

Bible

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Men trip not on mountains they stumble on stones.

Unfortunately, I’m one of those people who could be hurt by someone multiple times but still believes there is a good side to them. :)

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

Megan Whalen Turner

World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!

private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Government loans will waste far more capital and resources than private loans. Government loans, in short, as compared with private loans, will reduce production, not increase it.

What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?

Silvia Hartmann

There is something lamentable, degrading, and almost insane in pursuing the visionary schemes of past ages with dogged determination, in paths of learning which have been investigated by superior minds, and with which such adventurous persons are totally unacquainted. The history of Perpetual Motion is a history of the fool-hardiness of either half-learned, or totally ignorant persons.

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Having lived in a mythical country, a place neither here nor there, these intellectuals from Vilna and Gomel helped create another and called it the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Such a name! It was hardly a union. The Soviets - workers’ councils - ruled it for about six weeks; socialism impoverished everybody, and only machine guns kept the republics from turning into nations. But to Szarza and the rest it didn’t matter. He’d put his life on the line, preferring simply to die at the wrong end of a gun rather than the wrong end of a club, and for twelve years - until 1929, when Stalin finally took over - he lived in a kind of dream world, a mythical country where idealistic, intellectual Jews actually ran things, quite literally a country of the mind. Theories failed, peasants died, the land itself dried up in despair. Still they worked twenty hours a day and swore they had the answer.

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.

When you meet someone you want to know, be very careful on how you sit on the driving seat to examine that person because you may end up putting yourself on a serious examination. Sometimes people lose interest & walk away after a chat because of the type of questions & silly discussions you engage in. Sometimes your highest intelligence end up exposing your foolishness.

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

Alexandre Dumas

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Rex Stout

We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.

One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.

Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

Kevin James Moore

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us,An' foolish notion.

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