Foolish Quotes - Page 8

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

We all do make foolish mistakes.

I have a good brain on me but I've never really used it when it came to decisions about love... I definitely have been foolish.

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?" "I hope not.

That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

Definitely it would be foolish to try and make my Czech films here in America, as foolish as it is when some Czech filmmakers try to make movies of America in Czechoslovakia. It was always abysmal stuff.