Foolish Quotes
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Fool Quotes
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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk
Thomas Carlyle
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
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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
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
Subject: Stupidity QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
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A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother
Bible
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
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Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.
Victor Hugo
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Cicero
Subject: Mistakes QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
George Shaw
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The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody i...
James Allen
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In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
Oscar Wilde
Subject: Fool Quotes :: Wisdom QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise
George Orwell
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible
Bertrand Russell
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I was young and foolish. - Explaining his endorsement of the Gun Control Act of 1968
Charlton Heston
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After Titanic (1997) it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I`m an English girl, I`ve always loved England, I`ve never felt the desire to leave it for any particular reason. And whilst I`m ambitious and care very much abo...
Kate Winslet
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War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.
Jayne Mansfield
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I cannot forgive the way he treated Charlton Heston. Even if I don`t agree with much of Heston`s politics, Chuck is a gentleman. He agreed to have an interview with Moore, and Moore took advantage of the situation and made Chuck look foolish. He had been ...
Kirk Douglas
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I am the king of the faux pas. I call everybody by their wrong name, and I congratulate women who are not pregnant. I`ve done so many awful things by mistake, and usually it`s things that make me look totally foolish.
Ted Danson
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The opera we used in the film [Opera (1987)] was "Macbeth", which has a tradition - also in the theatre - of being bad luck. People all warned against using it, suggested using "La Traviata" or "La Bohme", and I said, "This is just a story, don`t be fool...
Dario Argento
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Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicked thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn`t able to carry.
Vivien Leigh
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I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I`m one year older, everyone else is too.
Gloria Swanson
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You`re here to sweat. This program is live. There`s about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.
Paul Hogan
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You`ll get name recognition. The proceedings will no doubt be on C-SPAN. That doesn`t strike me as being a foolish expenditure of money.
Barbara Keshen
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Andrea Ruedi
Source: brainyquote.com
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You don`t have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you`re younger you don`t want to look a fool, so you don`t do things that might make you vulnerable.
Tom Wilkinson
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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
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You can say any foolish thing to do to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, `My God, you`re right! I never would`ve thought of that!`
Dave Berry
