The wise pause; the foolish react.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Foolishness is simply self inflicted misery.
Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can cheat him. But I've seen him cheat himself. If yo...
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. Sh...
Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.
To say what your disguise is would be foolish.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
I'd be foolish not to take some of these opportunities that are coming my way.
A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
I study nature so as not to do foolish things.
We're on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government. It's got to stop. It's got to stop.
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
