Quotes of: Foolish Keyword

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.

Aiko and the Dragon

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.

The Interior Castle

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Siddhartha

I've been wondering," Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going to lose them.

The School of Essential Ingredients

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

My Antonia

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

The Treasury of David, Volmes #1-3

You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.

There Once Was A Boy

This story inspires me to contribute with something unique and exciting for my time.

We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish

In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

Sarah MacLean

It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist

Steven Erikson

Keep your negativity to yourself. After watching you poison your own life with your opinions, I would be foolish to let you do the same to mine.

Steve Maraboli

[Martin Hellman:] Unless you're foolish enough to be continually excited, you won't have the motivation, you won't have the energy to carry it through.

Simon Singh

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.

Lauren Myracle

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

Mac Thornberry

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

Caspar Weinberger

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

We

Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

Nevil Shute

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Oriana Fallaci

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

V. S. Naipaul