Foolish Quotes - Page 9

My rule is when in doubt hire a professional. You could do it just this year and then you have direction to resume doing it yourself after the consultation. What you don't want is to do it wrong and be hit by a huge tax bill. Remember the old saying, "Don't be pennywise and pound foolish."

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.

My personal analysis is that, if you are concerned about U.S. foreign policy and getting into foolish wars, then Hillary Clinton is not your woman. On the other hand, I mean neither is Donald Trump.

We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.