Famous Quotes
214 Quotations with Foolish.
- 1. Euripides: Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- 2. Colette: You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- 3. William of Baskerville: So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
- 4. From the I Ching: Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brillian ...
- 5. Croesus of Lydia: No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury thei ...
- 6. Jane Austen: Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparat ...
- 7. Anatole France: If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- 8. Ben Johnson: No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man ...
- 9. John Ruskin: I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I don't mean ...
- 10. Author Unknown: A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you con ...
- 11. Thomas Carlyle: Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is ...
- 12. Joseph Wood Krutch: Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish th ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believe ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: KORAN, n. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblan ...
- 19. Anatole France: It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
- 20. George Bernard Shaw: Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing somet ...